News 2022
30. December
Yesterday the fourth round of the tournament was played to the end. Today is the usual New Year's Eve break before on
New Year's Day the quarterfinals will be played.
The last six matches of the fourth round were all quite one-sided, but there were a few surprise winners. The afternoon-session started with a clear 4:0 win from Dimitri van den Bergh over Kim Huybrechts. In the second match German Gabriel Clemens wrote history: he progressed as the first ever German player in the quarterfinals of a PDC World Championship. Clemens dominated the match and defeated the last unseeded player still in the tournament - Alan Soutar - with 4:1. With the same result ended the last match of the afternoon-session: Joe Cullen had no chance at all against Michael Smith. Not much better then Joe Cullen fared in the first match of the evening -session surprisingly Rob Cross who lost 2:4 to Chris Dobey. Without a chance was as well Dirk van Duijvenbode against Michael van Gerwen who won as well 4:1. Another surprise had the last fourth round match in store - Stephen Bunting won 4:1 against Luke Humphries.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew
Schedule Quarterfinals
29. December
Today in both the afternoon- and the evening-session three matches of the fourth round will be played.
Match of the day: Personal Favourite: Gabriel Clemens v Alan Soutar. Impartial: Michael van Gerwen v Dirk van Duijvenbode
Today's Day's Specials: It is only the second time that at the PDC World Championship two Belgian players meet. 2014 Kim Huybrechts was drawn first round against his brother Ronny Huybrechts, Kim won with 3:1.
What you should know as well: Gabriel Clemens already stands for the second time in the fourth round and he ist still so far the only German player who managed it. In this year with Gabriel Clemens and Martin Schindler for the first time two German players qualified by the Order of Merit for the World Championship.
Schedule Day 13
Statisticsnew
On the twelfth day of the tournament first the last four third round matches were played and Dirk van Duijvenbode, Rob Cross, Stephen
Bunting and Luke Humphries prevailed. Dirk van Duijvenbode won as last year the hard fought match against Ross Smith while a strong playing Bunting
won against an almost as outstanding Dave Chisnall. After that the first two fourth round matches took place. Gerwyn Price
had no problems against Jose de Sousa, but the match between Jonny Clayton and Josh Rock was a real battle. In the end Clayton won who
impressed with his clinical finishing.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew
29. December
At the PDC World Championship the third round will be played to the end and the fourth round will begin. In the afternoon-session three third round and in the evening-session one third round and
two fourth round matches will take place.
Match of the day: Personal Favourite: Jonny Clayton v Josh Rock. Impartial: Dirk van Duijvenbode v Ross Smith
Today's Day's Specials: Dave Chisnall due to a positive Covid 19 test was eliminated from last year's World Championship but a few weeks later reached the final of The Masters
What you should know as well: Today with Mervyn King the oldest participant in this year's World Championship stands at the oche. For King - born 1966 - who started his career in the BDO it is already the 27. World Championship in a row. He reached the final of the BDO World Championship twice. His best PDC World Championship result so far was the semi-final 2009
Schedule Day 12, Ergebnisse
Statistiknew
On the eleventh day of the tournament the third round continued with some upsets and a lot of drama. In the afternoon-session
both Jose de Sousa and unseeded Alan Soutar reached the fourth round with strong comebacks. De Sousa's comeback
only started after Searle missed one matchdart for a 4:1 win. After that Chris Dobey eliminated Gary Anderson with a clear
4:1 win from the tournament. In the evening-session Joe Cullen and Michael van Gerwen dominated their matches - despite Suljovic' strong performance against von Gerwen.
With the last match a real thriller between Martin Schindler and Michael Smith followed. Smith as well had to come back
from 1:3 to win the match 4:3.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew
28. December
At the PDC World Championship the third round continues, again an afternoon- and an evening -session with three matches each will be played.
Match of the day: Personal Favourite: Ryan Searle v Jose de Sousa. Impartial: Michael Smith v Martin Schindler
Today's Day's Specials: With Alan Soutar another non seeded player stands at the oche today. Soutar got his Tour Card in 2021 and moved up the rankings from then. Today he is ranked 36 in the PDC Order of Merit. He qualified last year for the PDC World Championship as well and lost in the last 16 at his debut.
What you should know as well: Gary Anderson not only supported Michael Smith at the begin of his career but Chris Dobey too. They met at the PDC World Championship 2019 as well , that year under the Last 16. Anderson defeated Dobey 4:3.
Schedule Day 11
After the end of the Christmas break yesterday the third round started with several upsets and surprising results. The biggest upset to be sure
was that reigning champion Peter Wright was eliminated by Kim Huybrechts. Nathan Aspinall was eliminated by Josh Rock who continued his
astonishing debut. Raymond van Barneveld was far less impressive as he had been in the Grand Slam where he won twice against Gerwyn Price. This time
Price got a very clear 4:0 win against the Dutchman. German Gabriel Clemens defeated in the dramatic match of the day Jim Williams. No problems
at all had Dimitri van den Bergh against Krzysztof Ratajski and Jonny Clayton against Brendan Dolan.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew
27. December
The Christmas break is over and the tournament continues with the third round which is played today in an afternoon- and an evening-session.
Match of the day: Personal Favourite: Nathan Aspinall v Josh Rock. Impartial: Gerwyn Price v Raymond van Barneveld
Today's Day's Specials: Nathan Aspinall is the only English player today on stage. Beside him we will see today three Welshmen, two Belgians, two Irishmen, a Scotsman - reigning champion Peter Wright, a German, a Dutchman and a Pole.
What you should know as well: This year only three unseeded players reached the third round: Josh Rock, Jim Williams and Alan Soutar. With Josh Rock and Jim Williams two will stand at the oche today.
Schedule Day 10, Results
Statisticsnew
23. December
The last day before the Christmas break and the last day of the second round which is played to the end in an afternoon- and an evening-session.
Match of the day: Personal Favourite: Martin Schindler v Martin Lukeman. Impartial: Rob Cross v Scott Williams
Today's Day's Specials: For Brendan Dolan it is already the 15. PDC World Championship. His best results so far were the quarterfinals in 2019.
What you should know as well: Today seven players will stand at the oche who took at some time of their career part in BDO/WDF World Championships: Darius Labanauskas, Ross Smith, Martijn Kleermaker, David Cameron, Danny Noppert, Scott Williams and Jimmy Hendriks. Noppert even reached the final of the BDO World Championship 2017.
Schedule Day 9, Results
Statisticsnew
The eighth day of the World Championship was a difficult day for some of the seeded players. One of them - James Wade - even was eliminated from the
tournament. Dirk van Duijvenbode, Gary Anderson and Luke Humphries had to give all for their wins. Quite comfortable wins got Ryan Searle, Mensur Suljovic,
Krzysztof Ratajski and Vincent van der Voort.
Results
Statisticsnew
22. December
Roland Scholten was the first Dutchman to become a PDC Top player and he stayed it for several years. He took part in six BDO and in twelve PDC World Chanpionships before a neck and shoulder injury ended his career. During his years in the PDC several other Dutch players qualified for the PDC World Championship but none of those stayed in the PDC. 2003 it was the today forgotten Arjan Moen.
30 Years PDC World Championship - 30 years Dutch participants? - 2new
The first round is over and so on the eighth day of the PDC World Championship both in the afternoon and in the evening session four second round matches will be played.
When you feel the first round this year was not as good as in the years before you are not wrong. This year's overall
average was 87.07 while in 2020 it was 88.99, in 2021 88.81 and in 2022 88.22.
Match of the day: Personal Favourite: Luke Humphries v Florian Hempel. Impartial: Ryan Searle v Adam Gawlas
Today's Day's Specials: German Florian Hempal is today the only player who qualified neither by the PDC Order of Merit nor by the PDC Pro Tour Order of Merit. He qualified as the winner of the PDC Europe Super League.
What you should know as well: With Luke Humphries today the PDC World Youth Champion from 2019 will stand at the oche. By now he is the number 5 in the World. He defeated in the final Adam Gawlas 6:0. Gawlas as weel will be on stage today. He is ranked 73 in the PDC Order of Merit. But Gawlas is quite accurately seven years younger then Humphries...
Schedule Day 8new
On Day 7 of the tournament first the last two first round matches took place which were won by Darius Labanauskas and Martijn Kleermaker.
In the following two second round matches of the afternoon session the Irish debutant Josh Rock could celebrate a surprisingly clear
3:0 win over seeded upcoming player Callan Rydz who had a pitchblack day and after that Dave Chisnall won a hard fought match against Andrew Gilding with
3:1. The evening session brought wins for all four seeded players Mervyn King, Gabriel Clemens, Michael van Gerwen and
Stephen Bunting though Mervyn King had to give all against American Danny Baggish.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew
21. December
Day seven of the PDC World Championship 2022/23. An afternoon session with the last two first round matches and two second round matches will be played
while in the evening session four second round matches will take place.
Match of the day: Personal Favourite: Callan Rydz v Josh Rock. Impartial: Michael van Gerwen v Lewy Williams
Debutants of the day: John O'Shea, Xicheng Han
Today's Day's Specials: With Stephen Bunting after Steve Beaton, Richie Burnett and Raymond van Barneveld the fourth former BDO World Champion will stand at the oche today. Mervyn King and Dave Chisnall both reached BDO World Championship finals. For Bunting, Chisnall and King the best PDC World Championship result was the semi-final. King reached it 2009, Bunting and Chisnall both 2021.
What you should know as well: In last year's World Championship both Darius Labanauskas and Michael van Gerwen threw a nine-darter
Schedule Day 7, Resultsnew
Statisticsnew
The seeded player of the day Raymond van Barneveld prevailed in the last match of the night with 3:1 over a solid playing Ryan Meikle and will meet in
the third round once again Gerwyn Price. Ricky Evans defeated Fallon Sherrock in an evenly matched game 3:2. Evans was more clinical on his doubles which
made the difference. Beside there were wins of debutant Jimmy Hendriks in a tenacious match over Jamie Hughes and of Jim Williams over young Pole Sebastian Bialecki.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew
20. December
Though Global Darts could't travel to London nevertheless this years World Championship will be again accompanied by some articles.
The PDC World Championship celebrates this year its 30. anniversary as Raymond van Barneveld celebrates his 30. World Championship. But that is coincidence. The articles will tell you how it really was with the PDC World Championship and the Dutch participants taking part.
30 Years PDC World Championship - 30 years Dutch participants? - 1new
On the sixth of the PDC World Championship 2022/23 only an evening session will be played
with three first round - and one second round match.
Match of the day: Personal Favourite: Ricky Evans v Fallon Sherrock. Impartial: Raymond van Barneveld v Ryan Meikle
Debutants of the day: Sebastian Bialecki, Jimmy Hendriks
Seeded Player of the day: Raymond van Barneveld
Today's Day's Specials: For van Barneveld it is already the 30. World Championship. 14 times he took part in the BDO World Championship and won four times. For the 16. time he takes part in the PDC World Championship and so far won it once
What you should know as well: The two debutants of the day Sebastian Bialecki and Jimmy Hendricks started the career in different ways. While the around ten years younger Bialecki from the start tried to make an impact in the PDC playing on the Devlopment Tour (though he was part of the national Polish team which took part in the WDF Europe Cup 2022) Jimmy Hendricks started es part of the BDO/WDF youth system winning 2011 the WDF World Cup Youth and the Youth World Masters and only is involved with the PDC since 2017.
Schedule Day 6, Resultsnew
Statisticsnew
Jose de Sousa and Gerwyn PRice - the two seeded players of the fifth day - won their matches and progressed into the third round. De Sousa
needed against Simon Whitlock a remarkable comeback as the Australian already had been 2:0 in the lead. Gerwyn Price lost the first set to Simon Whitlock
but after that controlled the match. Four of the debutants of the day won their matches: Danny Jansen, Danny Van Trijp, Leonard Gates - who danced into the hearts of the
crowd - and David Cameron who surprised with his win over Ritchie Edhouse. Beside Lewy Williams only just missed the nine-darter to win his match against Niels Zonneveld.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew
19. December
In the Alexandra Palace today as well the final of the JDC World Championship between Hugh Littler and Harry Gregory took place.
Littler dominated the match and won with 5:0.
Reportnew
Today, on day five of the PDC World Championship 2022/23 again an afternoon and an evening session will be played
with three first round - and one second round match each.
Match of the day: Personal Favourite and impartial: Jose de Sousa v Simon Whitlock
Debutants of the day: Robert Owen, Danny Jansen, Paolo Nebrida, Leonard Gates, David Cameron, Danny van Trijp
Seeded Player of the day: Jose de Sousa, Gerwyn Price
Today's Day's Specials:Today we have even six debutants! Though I find it difficult to call one of them, David Cameron, a debutant. He was some kind of ever present in the BDO World Championship from 2014 - 2020. Beside he won the World Senior Darts MAsters in 2022. Cameron qualified as best Canadian on the CDC Tour for his first PDC World Championship.
What you should know as well: For Steve Beaton it is already the 32. World Championship in a row. From 1992 - 2001 he took part in every BDO World Championship, from 2002 till today in all PDC World Championships. He only won once in 1996. Beside he reached in 1993 and 1997 the semi-finals of the BDO World Championship. In the PDC World Championship he never got further then the Last 16.
Schedule Day 5, Results
Statisticsnew
Both seeded winners of the fourth day won their matches - Damon Heta defeated Adrian Lewis, who couldn't keep up his first round performance -
with 3:0, Nathan Aspinall prevailed 3:1 over Boris Krcmar. The outstanding match of the day and the tournament so far was the match between Scott Williams and
Ryan Joyce, in which both players had an average of over 100 and which was won by Scott Williams with 164 Finish 3:1. Another
highlight of the day was Karel Sedlacek's 3:0 win over Raymond Smith - Sedlacek averaged 98.72.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew
18. December
On the fourth day of the PDC World Championship 2022/23 again afternoon and an evening session will be played
each with three first round - and one second round match.
Match of the day: Personal Favourite: Scott Williams v Ryan Joyce. Impartial: Damon Heta v Adrian Lewis
Debutants of the day: Prakash Jiwa, Vladyslav Omelchenko, Scott Williams
Seeded Player of the day: Damon Heta, Nathan Aspinall
Today's Day's Specials: Matches between a Canadian and and US American player so far didn't happen often in the PDC World Championship. 1998 John Part won 3:1 against Paul Lim who in this year still represented the USA. 2009 John Part lost 0:3 to American Bill Davies. And today we'll see Canadian Matt Campbell play against American Danny Baggish
What you should know as well: Though Prakash Jiwa gives his debut as Indian qualifier today he is far from unknown in the PDC. Jiwa had a Tour Card from 2011 -2018, he regained it three times during those years in Q School. Since then he plays on the Challengen Tour. 2022 he decided no longer to play for England but to represent India, took part in the Indian World Championship Qualifier and won it.
Schedule Day 4, Results
Statisticsnew
On the third day of the tournament with Daryl Gurney the first seeded player was eliminated from the event. He lost
0:3 to Alan Soutar who again impressed. In contrast the second seeded player, Dimitri van den Bergh, showed the so far best
performance of the tournament and won 3:0 over Lourence Ilagan who had no chance at all. With Martin Lukeman, Adam Gawlas, Cameron Menzies and
Josh Rock four of the debutants progressed into the second round. Lisa Ashton missed out on her first win in the Ally Pally.
She had managed to come back from 0:2 against Ryan Meikle and to draw 2:2 but in the fifth set she couldn't keep up any longer.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew
17. December
On the third day of the PDC World Championship 2022/23 an afternoon and an evening session will be played
each with three first round - and one second round match.
Match of the day: Personal Favourite: Simon Whitlock v Christian Perez. Impartial: Ryan Meikle v Lisa Ashton
Debutants of the day: Martin Lukeman, Nobohiro Yamamoto, Adam Gawlas, Cameron Menzies, Josh Rock
Seeded Player of the day: Daryl Gurney, Dimitri van den Bergh
Today's Day's Specials: Probably there was never before a day at a PDC World Championship on which five debutants from five different countries stood at the oche
What you should know as well: With Lisa Ashton and Richie Burnett two former and with Josh Rock a reigning World Champion will stand on stage. Added are former BDO World Championship runner-up Simon Whitlock and Cameron Mezies who stood 2022 in the semi-finals of the WDF World Championship
Schedule Day 3
On the second day of the tournament in the afternoon-session only one-sided matches were pplayed which ended with 3:0 wins for Alan Soutar, Boris Krcmar, Adrian Lewis
and Kim Huybrechts. It was more thrilling in the evening-session where in the first match Lourence Ilagan won a very close match Rowby-John Rodriguez. William O'Connor won after this with
3:0 against Beau Greaves but Greaves as well set some highlights and two of the sets went into the deciding legs. In the third match Florian Hempel only just
prevailed over Keegan Brown who lost his Tour Card in defeat. The final match of the day was again a very one-sided one -
Michael Smith won 3:0 over Nathan Rafferty and didn't lose a single leg.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew
16. December
On the second day of the PDC World Championship 2022/23 and afternoon and an evening session will be played
each with three first round - and one second round match.
Match of the day: Personal Favourite: William O'Connor v Beau Greaves. Impartial: Michael Smith v Nathan Rafferty
Debutants of the day: Mal Cuming, Beau Greaves
Seeded Player of the day: Kim Huybrechts, Michael Smith
Today's Day's Specials: International Day at the Ally Pally - Australia, Scotland, Japan, Croatia, Belgium, Sweden, South Africa, Austria, the Philippines, the Republic of Ireland, Germany, Northern Ireland and England will be represented.
What you should know as well: Mal Cuming, Daniel Larsson and Alan Soutar all played in BDO World Championships as well. For Michael Smith it is already the twelfth PDC World Championship, for Keegan Brown and Rowby-John Rodriguez it is World Championship number seven.
Schedule Day 2new
15. December
The first round matches on the first day of the tournaments brought two smaller upsets - both debutants won their matches. South African
Grant Sampson defeated in a scrapy match Keane Barry with 3:1 and Nathan Rafferty prevailed in a close match 3:2 over Jermaine Wattimena.
Mickey Mansell won without problems the opening match of the tournament 3:1 against Ben Robb but had in the second round match against
reigning champion Peter Wright no chance - Wright won 3:0.
Resultsnew
Statistics, Reportnew
Today in the Alexandra Palace in London the PDC World Championship 2022/23 will begin. Only an evening session will be played
with three first round - and one second round match.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Jermaine Wattimena v Nathan Rafferty. Impartial: Wright v Mansell/Robb
Debutants of the day: Nathan Rafferty, Grant Sampson
Seeded Player of the day: Reigning Champion Peter Wright
Today's Day's Specials: With Keane Barry and Micky Mansell from Northern Ireland and Nathan Rafferty from the Republic of Ireland some kind of Irish night
What you should know as well: While 22 years old Nathan Rafferty will give his World Championship debut for the two years younger Keane Barry, the 2020 BDO JYouth World Champion, it is already his fourth PDC World Championship. Rafferty's best results so far were the 2021 final of the PDC World Youth Championship and the Last 16 of the Grand Slam of Darts in the same year while Barry reached this year the semi-finals of the UK Open and the last 16 of the Players Championship Finals
Schedule Day 1
14. Dezember
Not only the PDC World Championship celebrates this time its 30. anniversary. For Raymond van Barneveld it will be the thirtieth time he takes part
in a World Championship. Beside him only Steve Beaton managed it, who this year already qualified for the thirty-first time. Van Barneveld will enter the
the World Championship after he reached the semi-finals of the Grand Slam last month full of confidence. The PDC World Championship will
begin tomorrow.
Van Barneveld bidding to roll back the years at Cazoo World Championshipnew
The dates for the WDF World Championships 2023 are not yet known but after the Winmau World Masters all
participants are already known.
You can finde here how the field of participants will look:
Participants WDF World Championships 2023new
13. Dezember
On the final day of the Winmau World Masters the qualifiers for the men and women for the WDF World Championships 2023 took place.
Four places were on offer for the men, two for the women. The men's qualifiers were Shaun McDonald, Dutchmen Jarno Bottenberg and Arjan Kontermann
and Austrian Christian Gödl. He is the first Austrian who managed to qualify after Mensur Suljovic in 2002. The two places for the women
got Spain Almudenda Fajardo and Japanese Mayumi Ouchi. With Fajardo for the first time a female Spain qualified for
a WDF World Championship.
The participants in the WDF World Championships of the Girls and the Boys are known as well. In the final of the girl's event Italian Aurora Fochesato and Hungarian Krisztina Turai will meet. The boy's semi-finals reached Luke Littler, Dutchman Bradley van der Velden, German Mats Theobald and Irishman Adam Dee.
Report Qualifiers Women and Mennew
Report Qualifiers Girls and Boysnew
12. December
In all four events of the Winmau World Masters we did see new winners this year.
Winner of the men's event was Dutchman Wesley Plaisier. The women's title went to Beau Greaves, who already won the girl's title before. The Boy's title went to Luke Littler who had been the favourite. In the Girls event Paige Pauling prevailed who had won the World Open as well.
Today in Assen the WDF World Championship Qaulifiers for the Women and Men will take place.
Worldmasters 22, Results
Report Day Fournew
11. December
On the third day of the tournament in Assen the World Open of the Men and the Women took place, the two World Masters Youth events were played down till including
the semi-finals and the finals of the World ParaDarts World Masters were played. The World Open titles went to Benjamin Pratnemer and Aileen de Graaf.
Luke Littler and American Peter Stewart jnr will meet in the Boy's Final. Stewart is the first Amrican to reach this final.
In the Girls Final Paige Pauling, who already won the World Open event, and Finn Lida Lanko will clash. The ParaDarter titles went to
Canadian Wayne Chapman - standing - and Belgian Vincent D'Hondt - wheelchair.
Today the finals of all four World Masters events will be played.
Worldmasters 22, Resultsnew
Report Third Day
Lisa Ashton as well talked about her already fourth participation the the PDC World Championship. After she lost three times in the first round
she finally wants a win on the Ally Pally stage. The complete interview with Ashton can be found in the PDC World Championship programme.
Trailblazer Ashton eyeing elusive Alexandra Palace victorynew
9. December
Yesterday in Assen in the Netherlands the Winmau World Masters began. On the first day the Floor Matches of the women and men
were played. In the men's event no former World Masters winner is in the field of the participants. Among the players who were
eliminated on the first day were the WDF World Chmapionship runner-up
Thibault Tricole and James Hurrell. In the women's event all favourites are still in the event.
Worldmasters 2022new
The PDC published the provisional schedule of the Third Round of the tournament. The Third Round will be played after the
Christmas break from 27. - 29. December.
Provisional Schedule Third Roundnew
Michael van Gerwen will go after his win of the Players Championship Finals end of November full of confindence
in the PDC World Championship. He intends to win his fourth World champion title and get back the number 1 of the world spot.
Van Gerwen vying to create more Ally Pally historynew
6. December
As always before the PDC World Championship some of the participants had to be added to the Who is Who. This year it were: Scott Williams, Sebastian Bialecki, Xicheng Han, Paolo Nebrida, Nobuhiro Yamamoto, Robert Owen, Danny van Trijp, Grant Sampson and Vladyslav Omelchenko.
4. December
During a press conference to launch the upcoming PDC World Championship Beau Greaves talks about her participation in the event.
Greaves determined to enjoy Ally Pally debutnew
30. November
After the draw the PDC puplished now the schedule of the first and second round as well.
The tournament will begin on 15. December with the first round match between Mickey Mansell and Ben Robb. As always the reigning champion will as well begin his tournament on the first evening - Peter Wright will play against the winner of the opening match. Till including the 20. December in each session three first round and one second round match will be played. The last two first round matches will take place in the afternoon session on 21. December. After that till the Christmas break the second round will be played to the end.
Schedule First and Second Roundnew
29. November
The field of participants for the PDC World Championship 2022/23 is complete. Yesterday by the PDPA Qualifier Richie Burnett, Ryan Joyce and
Jeff Smith were the last players to qualify for the tournament.
The draw for the first and second round of the tournament took place yesterday as well. Reigning champion Peter Wright will begin his campaign against the winner of the first round match between Mickey Mansell and Ben Robb from New Zealand. The World Number 1 Gerwyn Price will play his first match against the winner of the first round game between Luke Woodhouse and Urkain's Vladyslav Omelchenko while Michael van Gerwen will begin against the winner of the first round match between Niels Zonneveld and Lewy Williams.
Participants, Draw First and Second Roundnew
27. November
Michael van Gerwen was unstoppable in the final of the Players Championship Finals - not even by a strong playing Rob Cross.
He won the final 6:11 and for the seventh time got the title.
In the match he delighted the crowd not only with a nine-darter but with a 170 finish as well.
Report and Statistics Finals Daynew
Josh Rock is the newly crowned Winmau PDC World Youth Champion.
He defeated in a very one sided final his Scottish opponent Nathan Girvan with 6:1 and once again showed a convincing performance.
Reportnew
On the second day of the event the second and the third round were played and the field of participants was further reduced
from 32 to 8 players. In the oustanding match of the day an unstoppable Dirk van Duijvenbode met a strong playing Ryan Searle. Van Duijvenbode won the close match with 10:9.
Today in the afternoon-session the quarterfinals will take place. In the evening-session semi-finals and final will follow. Between the semi-finals and the final the final of the Winmau World Youth Championship between Josh Rock and Nathan Girvan will be played.
Report an Statistics Second and Third Round
Schedule Finals Day, Resultsnew
26. November
In the first round there were several - among others Gerwyn Price and Michael Smith
lost their averages and were eliminated from the tournament.The best perfomance of the first day showed Danny Noppert who
played an average of 106.59.
Today in the afternoon-session the second round is played, in the evening session the third round. Again it will be played on two stages.
Schedule Day 2, Results
Statistics Second and Third Roundnew
25. November
Today in Minehead the Players Championship Finals will begin in which the Top 64 of the Players Championship Order of Merit take part.
Reigning champion Peter Wright withdrew due to the health issues of his wife and is replaced by
Gian van Veen.
On the Main- and the Second Stage the first round will be played.
Schedule, Participants, Results
Statistics First Roundnew
21. November
PDC Rankings
20. November
Michael Smith defeated in the final of the Grand Slam Nathan Aspinall with 16:5 and won his first big TV title.
Smith was one of the moast consistent players of the event, he won all his group matches commandingly and he was in the final clearly the better player while Aspinall seemed to be a little bit tired. Smith was already a finalist in many TV events but so far always missed with his matchdarts.
Statistics Semi-Finals, Finalnew
Michael Smith and Nathan Aspinall will meet tonight in the final of the Grand Slam of Darts.
Michael Smith prevailed 16:12 over Raymond van Barneveld. For a long time it was an evenly matched game but in the end Smith managed to pull clear. The second semi-final between Nathan Aspinall and Luke Humphries was very similar - for a long time both players were on par before Aspinall pulled clear and won as well 16:12.
Bericht, Statistics Semi-Finalsnew
19. November
Nathan Aspinall und Luke Humphries won tonight their quarterfinals against Alan Soutar and Michael van Gerwen and will
meet tomorrow afternoon in the semi-finals.
In the first quarterfinal tonight Nathan Aspinall won 16:12 against Alan Soutar. It was a very evenly matched game in which Aspinall prevailed because he was much more clinical on his doubles then his opponent.
In the second semi-final Luke Humphries caused one of the big upsets of the tournament - he defeated Michael van Gerwen - the favourite to win the event - with 10:16. Van Gerwen couldn't keep up the brilliant performance he showed against Josh Rock and Humphries was from the start the dominant player who kept his nerve till the end.
Results
Statistics Quarterfinals 2new
Here comes the second article!
Again it deals mostly with darts - to be excact with the second day of the tournament. Beside you'll find a pinch of local colour.
Some fans dress up as dart boards...new
Tonight the other two semi-finals will take place.
First Scottish debutant Alan Soutar will play against Nathan Aspinall. After that in the last quarterfinal Luke Humphries and Michael van Gerwen will clash.
Schedule, Results Quarterfinals 2
18. November
In two thrilling quarterfinals tonight Michael Smith and Raymond van Barneveld prevailed. Joe Cullen and reigning champion
Gerwyn Price were eliminated.
First Michael Smith played against Joe Cullen. Cullen most of the time was in the lead till 15:13. But then Smith managed to win three legs in a row to win 16:15. In the second quarterfinal between Gerwyn Price and Raymond van Barneveld Price was 3:8 in the lead. But the Dutchman won the seven following legs and took the lead which he protected to the end even though Price at one time reduced his arrears to one leg. Van Barneveld won 16:13.
Van Barneveld and Smith will meet in the semi-finals on Sunday.
Results
Bericht, Statistics Quarterfinals 1new
Though he didn't win the highclass match against a brilliant Michael van Gerwen it was Josh Rock who stood in the limelight - he threw
a nine-darter in the match but lost 8:10. After this the last match of the night between Luke Humphries and Ross Smith felt
almost boring - Humphries won with 10:8. Humphries and van Gerwen will meet in the quarterfinals on Saturday.
The other two matches of the night were won by Nathan Aspinall and Alan Soutar. Aspinall defeated without problems
Jermaine Wattimena with 10:6 while Soutar continued his dream debut and prevailed 10:8 over Jonny Clayton. So
in the other quarterfinal on Saturday Nathan Aspinall will play against Alan Soutar.
Tonight the first two quarterfinals will take place: Joe Cullen will meet Michael Smith and Gerwyn Price will play against Raymond van Barneveld, .
Results Day 6
Report, Statistics Day 6new
Schedule Day 7 - Quarterfinals 1new
16. November
The dream Grand Slam for Raymond van Barneveld goes on: he defeated in the last 16 Simon Whitlock with 10:8.
Michael Smith as well won 10:8 against Rob Cross - Smith was the complete match in the lead, but couldn't really get rid of Cross.
For the third match reigning champion Gerwyn Price came on stage but the match first was dominated by his opponent Danny Noppert. Price
never gave in and finally drawed 8:8. Then he won the last two legs of the match - another 10:8 win.
The last match between Joe Cullen and Dirk van Duijvenbode was a one-sided affair - Cullen won with 10:4.
In the quarterfinals on Friday Gerwyn Price will clash -as he did already in the group phase - with Raymond van Barneveld antreten, Joe Cullen will play against Michael Smith.
Resultsnew
Statistics Day 5new
Global Darts is back in Wolverhampton! And so this year again a series of articles will accompany the tournament.
Here the first article which deals mostly with the first day of the tournament and the first group matches.
Out of Darkness Cometh Light...new
After the Group Phase tonight the Knockout Phase of the tournament will begin. The first four matches will be played in which
the first of the groups A-D will play seconds of the other groups.
Raymond van Barneveld opens the night against Simon Whitlock. Next on will be the match between Michael Smith and Rob Cross. In the third match Reigning Champion Gerwyn Price will meet Danny Noppert and in the last match Dirk van Duijvenbode and Joe Cullen will clash.
Schedule Day 5
Nathan Aspinall caused on the last day of the Group Phase of the Grand Slam the biggest upset - he defeated World Champion Peter Wright. By the win Aspinall moved on the
top of Group E. As Alan Soutar won against Fallon Sherrock Wright was eliminated due to the leg difference while Aspinall and
Soutar progressed into the Knockout Phase. Jermaine Wattimena defeated Leonard Gates and progressed alongside Jonny Clayton, who lost with a weak performance against Damon Heta,
from Group F into the next round. From Group G Michael van Gerwen and Ross Smith progressed who clashed
in a highclass match today which was won by Smith.
From Group H Luke Humphries and Rosh Rock progessed who as well clashed today, Rock won the match.
The highest averages of the day played Ross Smith and Scott Williams with over 107.
Results Day 4
Report, Statistics Day 4new
15. November
Tonight the last group matches of Groups E-F will be played. Luke Humphries, Jonny Clayton and Michael van
Gerwen are already through to the next round. World Champion Peter Wright on the other side can't yet be sure to progress, in his
group beside him Nathan Aspinall and Alan Soutar still have a chance, only Fallon Sherrock is
eliminated. In the other groups as well not all is decided yet.
Schedule Day 4
After a thrilling night the eight players are known who progress from Groups A - D into the Knockout Phase of the tournament.
Three matches were especially hard fought. Danny Noppert prevailed in a close match against Mensur Suljovic. Noppert had both problems with his doubles and with Suljovic's
throwing rhythm. In the highclass match of the night between Dave Chisnall and reigning champion Gerwyn Price it was the reigning champion who won with 5:4.
As close but less highclass was the last match of the night between Rob Cross and Martin Schindler. Cross won it in a final comeback sprint while
his opponent missed a lot of doubles.
Schedule, Results Day 3
Bericht, Statistics Day 3new
14. November
Tonight the last group matches of Groups A-D will be played. So far only Raymond van Barneveld and Dirk van Duijvenbode as firsts of their groups
A and D are through to the Knockout Phase while Ted Evetts and Adam Gawlas are already eliminated.
Reigning Champion Gerwyn Price is one of the players who still has to fight - he has to win against Dave Chisnall. In Groups B and C nothing is decided yet,
in Group D the winner of Rob Cross v Martin Schindler will progress.
Schedule, Results Day 3
After the second day of the tournament on which the second group matches of all groups were played already five players are thanks to their
second wins through to the next round: Raymond van Barneveld, Dirk van
Duijvenbode, Michael van Gerwen, Jonny Clayton and Luke Humphries, who played in the last match on Sunday with 107.4 the so far
highest average of the tournament. Ted Evetts, Adam Gawlas and Fallon Sherrock are all already eliminated.
Everything else will be only decided in the last group matches which will be played in Groups
A-D on Monday and in Groups E-H on Tuesday.
Schedule, Results Day 2
Report, Statistics Day 2new
12. November
On the first day of the tournament we did see wins for former champions Raymond van Barneveld and Michael van Gerwen and
reigning champion Gerwyn Price. All other seeded players won their first group matches as well. Slightly astonishing were
Luke Woodhouse, Alan Soutar and Jermaine Wattimena among the winners. The highest averages played Dirk van Duijvenbode, Rob Cross, Gerwyn Price and
Michael van Gerwen.
Today again an afternoon- and an evening-session will be played and again in the afternoon Groups A-D will play and tonight groups E-H.
Report, Statistics - Day 1
Today in Wolverhampton on a sunny and warm day the Grand Slam of Darts will begin.
In an afternoon- and an evening-session the first group matches of all groups will be played.
In the afternoon sessions groups A-D will stand at the oche, tonight groups E-H.
In the afternoon session on stage: Reigning champion Gerwyn Price, who will play against Ted Evetts and Lisa Ashton, who will play in the last ,atch of the afternoon against Michael Smith. The second woman in the field of participants, Fallon Sherrock, will meet in the evening-session against Peter Wright.
Schedule, Results Day 1, Tables
Statistics
11. November
Florian Hempel defeated in the final of this year's PDC Europe Super League Niko Springer with 10:8 and secured by this a place
in the PDC World Championship. With Hempel the most consistent player won though had first to come back from 2:6 behind in the match
to win it.
Hempel prevailed in the quarterfinals over Dragutin Horvat and then defeated Daniel Klose in the semi-finals who couldn't quite keep his nerve in the deciding leg. Springer reached the final with wins over Ricardo Pietreczko and Lukas Wenig.
PDC Europe Super League - Results Finals Day
10. November
Florian Hempel, Rene Eidams, Lukas Wenig and Ricardo Pietreczko progressed from Main Group A into the quarterfinals,
Niko Springer, Franz Rötzsch, Daniel Klose and Dragutin Horvat progressed from Main Group B.
Tomorrow the tournament will be played to the end. In the quarterfinals Florian Hempel will play against Dragutin Horvat, Franz Rötzsch will meet Lukas Wenig, Rene Eidams will clash with Daniel Klose and Niko Springer will play against Ricardo Pietreczko.
PDC Europe Super League - Final Standings, Quarterfinals
On the third day of the event, the first day of the second round, Florian Hempel again won all his seven matches. So he heads
the table of main group A followed by Lukas Wenig and Rene Eidams with five wins each on places 2 and 3. Fourth is Nico Kurz with four wins who
currently would progress into the quarterfinals as well.
In main group B Niko Springer is first in the table with six wins followed by Franz Rötzsch and Daniel Klose who both won five matches. David Schlichting and Dragutin Horvat at the moment sit in places 4 and 5. Both won four matches - they are seperated by the leg difference.
Today the second round will be played to the end.
PDC Europe Super League - Tables after Day 3
9. November
On Saturday in Wolverhampton the Grand Slam of Darts will begin in which this year several big names will be missing which failed to qualify.
Among them are Gary Anderson, James Wade, Kim Huybrechts, Dimitri van den Bergh and Jose de Sousa.
As always this year there is no clear favourite on the win. The preview has a first view on the tournament.
Preview
The first round is played. Today second round will follow with 16 players in two groups. Florian Hempel, Daniel Klose and Niko Springer won all their matches so far, Ricardo Pietreczko only one. Quie close it was for the former German number 1 Max Hopp but in the end he mangaed to profress with five wins.
PDC Europe Super League
8. November
Yesterday the groups and the first group matches of the eight groups of the round robin phase were drawn.
Reigning champion and number 1 seed Gerwyn Price was drawn into Group A together with Raymond van Barneveld, Dave Chisnall and Ted Evetts. Price will start his campaign against Ted Evetts
Groups, Schedule First Group Matches
Yesterday the PDC Europe Super League started. In four groups with six players each every player played five matches in a round robin format.
Three of the 24 players had a flawless start and won all five matches: Florian Hempel, Daniel Klose and Niko Springer. Today in the same format the second half of the first round will follow. The top four of each group progress into the second round.
Dragutin Horvat therew a nine-darter yesterday but only sits in fifth place of his group.
PDC Europe Super League
7. November
By the Tour Card Holders Qualifier the last free places in the tournament were on offer. For the tournament -
which will begin on 12. November - Ritchie Edhouse, Raymond van Barneveld, Martin Schindler, Adam Gawlas, Alan Soutar, Luke Woodhouse, Mensur Suljovic and
Jermaine Wattimena qualified.
Participants, Schedule
After the end of the Pro Tour season the 64 for participants in the Players Championships Final are known. The tournament will be played
from 25. - 27. November in Minehead.
The first round draw already took place. Reigning champion Peter Wright will begin his campaign against Ross Smith while number 1 seed Damon Heta will play first round against German Ricardo Pietreczko.
Participants, Draw
Gerwyn Price and James Wade were the winners of the last two Players Championships of the year.
Gerwyn Price defeated in the final of the 29. Players Championships on Friday Gian van Veen with 8:4. In the semi-finals stood Dave Chisnall and Mike de Decker.
On Saturday James Wade won the 30. Players Championship - he prevailed in the final 8:6 over Steve Beaton. Again Dave Chisnall reached the semi-finals. The second semi-finalist was German Martin Schindler
Results
PDC Rankings
Pro Tour
3. November
At the weekend in Barnsley the Players Championships 29 and 30 will take place, the last Players
Championships of the year. On Sunday at the same venue the Tour Card Holders
Qualifier for the Grand Slam of Darts will follow.
Among the Tour Card Tour Card Holders who didn't register are Michael van Gerwen and Danny Noppert.
Participants, Results
30. October
Ross Smith defeated in the final of the European Championship Michael Smith with 8:11 and secured his first Major title.
Before he defeated on finals day in the quarterfinals world champion Peter Wright and prevailed in the semi-finals over Chris Dobey.
Michael Smith reached the final by wins over Luke Humphries in the quarterfinals and Dirk van Duijvenbode in the semi-finals.
Results
Statisticsnew
Beau Greaves managed to win the last two events of this year's Women Series as well. In the 19. event she defeated in the final
Fallon Sherrock with 5:3 and played a sensational 107.86 average in the match, in the 20. event she prevailed 5:1 over Mikuru Suzuki.
By this Greaves moved up on the second place of the ranking ousting Fallon Sherrock and secured beside Lisa Ashton- who heads the
ranking - a place in the PDC World Championship.
In the semi-finals of the 19. event stood Lisa Ashton and Natalie Gilbert while in the 20. event Robyn Byrne and Rhian O'Sullivan reached the semi-finals.
Participants, Results
Ranking
Today in Dortmund in an afternoon-and an evening session the second round took place.
We did see two slightly surprising wins for Chris Dobey and Ross Smith who prevailed over Jose de Sousa and Dimitri van den Bergh respectively. In the all Dutch clash Danny Noppert won the close match 10:9 against Vincent van der Voort, Dirk van Duijvenbode defeated James Wade with 10:7. Luke Humphries was too strong for Ryan Searle, Michael Smith played imperiously and defeated an again great playing Josh Rock, Peter Wright gave Rowby-John Rodriguez no chance at all and Dave Chisnall somehow managed to beat Jonny Clayton.
Results
Statistics
Reportnew
At the weekend in Wigan this year's Women's Series will be played to the end. Today and tomorrow two events each will take place.
Today both events were won by Beau Greaves who defeated in the final once Mikuru Suzuki and once Lisa Ashton. In event 17 Maria O'Brien and Lorraine Winstanley reached the semi-finals, in event 18 it were Fallon Sherrock and again Lorraine Winstanley.
Participants, Results
28. October
The second day of the tournament - on which the first round was played to the end - went not according to plan for some of the top players and both
Michael van Gerwen and Gerwyn Price were elimnated.
Gerwyn Price lost whith 4:6 to Rowby-John Rodiguez who was more clinical on his doubles. Michael van Gerwen came back against Chris Dobey and had a 5:4 lead. But Dobey managed to win the last two legs after both players had missed some matchdarts. The other winners of the night were an outstanding Dave Chisnall, Dimitri van den Bergh and Ross Smith who both showed strong performances, Peter Wright and Jose de Sousa who both dominated their matches and a convincing Jonny Clayton.
Results
Statisticsnew
27. October
Already on the first night of the tournament in Dortmund several upsets happened and beside reigning champion Rob Cross with Damon
Heta and Nathan Aspinall two more players out of the Top 10 of the European Tour Order of Merit were eliminated from the event.
Cross lost in a from both players unconvincing match to James Wade, Nathan Aspinall lost an as well very close match to debutant Josh Rock and Damon Heta was defeated by Vincent van der Voort who just hit his doubles better. The other winners of the night were Dirk van Duijvenbode, Ryan Searle, Danny Noppert, Luke Humphries and Michael Smith.
Results
Statistics
Reportnew
26. October
Tomorrow in the Westfalenhalle in Dortmund, Germany, the European Championship 2022 will begin in which the Top 32
of the European Tour Order of Merit will take part.
The tournament will be opened tomorrow night with the match between Dirk van Duijvenbode and Madars Razma. As well among the players on stage during the first nigth of the tournament will be reigning champion Rob Cross who will play against James Wade.
Participants, Draw, Schedule
Previewnew
24. October
PDC Rankings
Pro Tour
On Saturday and Sunday Rob Cross and Josh Rock won Players Championships 27 and 28.
Rob Cross defeated in the final of the 27. Players Championship Peter Wright with 8:4. The semifinals reached Callan Rydz and Ryan Meikle.
On Sunday Josh Rock got his first Pro Tour title - he won the final of the 28. Players Championship with 8:5 against Luke Humphries. In the semifinals stood Damon Heta and for the first time German Ricardo Pietreczko.
Participants, Results
21. October
The first two events of the weekend in Barnsley were won by Dave Chisnall and Damon Heta.
Chisnall won the 25. Players Championship with a 8:4 triumph over Josh Rock. Both players played outstanding during the day, Chisnall had at his quarterfinal win against Luke Humphries an unbelievable 114.62 average. In the semi-finals stood Gerwyn Price and Damon Heta.
Today Damon Heta won the 26. Players Championship, he defeated in the final Dirk van Duijvenbode after a great comeback with 8:4. With Heta the most consistent player of the day was the winner. The semi-finals reached Boris Krcmar and Gerwyn Price.
Tomorrow and on Sunday two more Players Championship will be played.
Participants, Results
20. October
From today till Sunday in Barnsley the Players Championships 25 - 28 will be played.
Many of the participants still try to qualify for the Players Championship Finals, in which the Top 64 of the Players Championship Order of Merit
will take part. Among them are John Henderson, Darius Labanauskas and Steve West.
Participants, Results
19. October
The schedule of the first round of the European Championship was published.
The first round match between Dirk van Duijvenbode and Madars Razma will open the tournament on Thursday night. Reigning champion Rob Cross will play against
James Wade on the first evening as well. The second first round evening on Friday is headlined by players like Peter Wright,
Michael van Gerwen and Gerwyn Price.
European Championship 2022 - Schedule first round
18. October
By now more qualifiers for the PDC World Championship took place. Diogo Portela won the Central-and South America Qualifier, Ben Robb won
the New Zealand Qualifier and Vladyslav Omelchenko won the first ever Ukrainian Qualifier and will give his Alexandra Palace debut.
How the field of participants of the World Championship looks at the moment you can find here:
PDC World Championship 2022/23 - Field of Participants on 18. October
17. October
After the Gibraltar Darts Torphy, the last event of the European Tour 2022, all participants in the European Championship are known.
The tournament will take place from 27. - 30. October in Dortmund, Germany.
The draw for the first round already took place. Reigning champion Rob Cross will play his first round match against James Wade while number 1 seed Luke Humphries will open his campaign against Krzysztof Ratajski.
European Championship 2022
At the weekend the last four events of this year's PDC Challenge Tour were played and they had four different winners.
On Saturday was "French Day" on the Challenge Tour and Thibault Tricole and Jacques Labre both celebrated
their first wins, on Sunday Andy Hamilton and Justin Smith won the last two events.
But it had no effect on the Ranking, which is still headed by Scott Williams and Robert Owen.
As Williams is already qualified for the PDC World Championship the two Challenge Tour tournament places went to Robert Owen ranked on second place and Danny van Trijp ranked third. Williams and Owen both will get a Tour Card. Should Williams be after the World Championship under the Top 64 of the Order of Merit van Trijp will get the Tour Card. Williams is as well qualified for the Grand Slam of Darts.
Challenge Tour
PDC Rankings
European Tour
16. October
Damon Heta defeated in the final of the Gibraltar Darts Trohphy Peter Wright in a very close match with 8:7 and won his first title on the European Tour. Wright
stormed into a 3:0 lead. Heta levelled and took the lead. But Wright managed to level as well and the match went into a deciding leg in which Wright already
looked like the winner. But Heta didn't give in, both players missed several match darts before Heta finally hit the double 4 for the win.
In the semi-finals Peter Wright defeated Rob Cross with 7:1 while Heta won thanks to a convincing comeback a hard fought match against Michael van Gerwen with 7:6.
Schedule, Results
Statisticsnew
Report Finals Daynew
15. October
As the PDC Europe announced this year's PDC Europe Super League will be played from 7. - 11. November. As last year
it will take place in the H+ Hotel in Niedernhausen. The format will be the same as last year. Beside the Top 16 of
last year's ranking - with the exception of Martin Schindler who is already qualified by the Pro Tour Order of Merit for the PDC World Champion -
nine wild cards will take part. The wild cards were allocated predominantly to young and upcoming players. The winner of the PDC Europe Super League
will again be awarded with a place in the PDC World Championship.
PDC Europe Super League
Today on the second day of the event the second round will take place in an afternoon- and an evening session.
The first round winners will play against the seeded players.
From the six Host Nation Qualifiers only Craig Galliano survived the first round. He will play tonight against Peter Wright. As well tonight on stage will be reigning champion Gerwyn Price who will play in a repeat of last year's final against Mensur Suljovic.
Schedule, Results
Statisticsnew
14. October
The Gibraltar Darts Trophy is the 13. and last event of this year's European Tour. After the tournament all
32 participants in the European Championship are known. As always on the first day of the tournament today the first round will take place
in an afternoon - and an evening session. Only the qualifiers will stand at the oche.
Karel Sedlacek and Krzysztof Kiuc withdrew from the event. So by the Host Nation Qualifier six tournament places were on offer. Craig Galliano, Manuel Vilerio, Sean Negrette, Justin Hewitt, Dyson Parody and Dylan Duo Jr qualified.
Schedule, Resultsnew
Statisticsnew
13. October
Thorn and his travel companion stay for several days in San Jose. And of course once again Thorn tries to find darts in the town. He's quite surprised to make a find!
"The Unknown League Of Dardos Ticos"
10. October
PDC Rankings
9. October
Michael van Gerwen defeated Nathan Aspinall in a thrilling final 5:3 and won his sixth World Grand Prix title.
Van Gerwen stormed to a 4:0 lead winning two of the sets in a deciding leg. But he hadn't won the match yet as
Aspinall found a way back into the match and won the next three sets all with 3:1. In the eighth set
Aspinall managed to level 2:2 but couldn't find the Double 20 for his finish in the deciding leg and van Gerwen won the match
and the title with a Double 6.
Bericht und Statistics Finalnew
Today the PDC World Youth Championship in Wigan was played down till including the semi-finals. Nathan Girvan and Josh Rock were the winners of the two semi-finals,
who will play during the Players Championship Finals on 27. November in Minehead the final. The losing semi-finalists were
Callan Rydz and Geert Nentjes. Both Girvan and Jarred Cole threw during the tournament a nine-darter.
Winners of the last two Development Tour events of the year on Saturday were Nathan Rafferty and Joshua Richardson. By this Rafferty jumped above Josh Rock in the ranking. Josh Rock and Nathan Rafferty both will take part in the Grand Slam of Darts. Rafferty and the fourth ranked Lewy Williams both will get a place in the PDC World Championship as Rock and Keane Barry are already qualified by the Pro Tour Order of Merit. As all Top Four of the rankings already have a Tour Card Geert Nentjes and probably Jurjen van Velde will get the two Tour Cards for players from the Development Order of Merit.
World Youth Championship
Development Tour - Ranking Final Standings
The semi-finals night was a night of upsets - especially as both Gerwyn Price and Peter
Wright were never even near their A Game. In the first semi-final a powerful pugnacious
Nathan Aspinall prevailed with 4:2 over an only in parts convincing Gerwyn Price. Much easier it was for
Michael van Gerwen against Peter Wright who never at all was in the match and only won a single leg.
Van Gerwen won 4:0.
Tonight in the final Nathan Aspinall will play against Michael van Gerwen.
Schedule, Results
Report and Statistics Semifinalsnew
8. October
Michael van Gerwen showed the best performance in the quarterfinals and defeated Chris Dobey with 3:1. Gerwyn Price had no problems against Madars Razma, who couldn't keep up
and won 3:0. The other two matches were hard fought and both were only decided in the fifth leg of the deciding fifth set.
Nathan Aspinall prevailed over Martin Lukeman and Peter Wright over Dimitri van den Bergh.
Tonight in the semi-finals first Gerwyn Price and Nathan Aspinall will meet before Michael van Gerwen will play against Peter Wright.
Schedule, Results
Report and Statistics Quarterfinals
Statistics Semifinalsnew
Yesterday and today the last Development Tour events of the year take place in Wigan. After that all participants in the World
Youth Championship are known which will be played down tomorrow till including the semi-finals. The final will take place on 27. November during the Players Championship
Finals in Minehead.
Yesterday first Josh Rock won his fifth event of the year before Nathan Rafferty got his fourth title. Josh Rock won his final against Rusty-Jake Rodriguez while Nathan Rafferty prevailed over German Nico Springer.
At the moment Rock and Rafferty head the ranking and by this would both get a two years Tour Card and and a place in the World Championship.
Development Tour
World Youth Championship
7. October
Yesterday in Leicester the second round was played to the end. For the two debutants Martin Lukeman and Madars Razma the dream debut
continued - they progressed with wins over Ross Smith and Daryl Gurney in the quarterfinals. The only seed of this half of the draw still in the tournament
- Gerwyn Price - had a slow start in his match against Joe Cullen but played two brilliant last sets and progressed as well.
The last match of the second round between Nathan Aspinall and Danny Noppert was hard fought - Noppert
won the first two sets, Aspinall leveled and battled in the deciding set over the finishing line first.
Today is quarterfinals day in Leicester. Nathan Aspinall will play against Martin Lukeman, Gerwyn Price will meet Madars Razma, Michael van Gerwen will play against Chris Dobey and Peter Wright against Dimitri van den Bergh,
Schedule, Results
Report and Statistics fourth daynew
6. October
On the third day of the tournament the first four second round matches were played and it was once again a long night
as all matches were only decided in the fifth set. Headlines wrote especially Dimitri van den Bergh who eliminated reigning champion
Jonny Clayton with a convincing display. Chris Dobey prevailed in the first match of the night over Adrian Lewis.
Krzysztof Ratajski and Stephen Bunting went as the outsiders in their matches against Peter Wright and Michael van Gerwen, but they made their opponents
work hard - though in both matches the favourites won.
Tonight the second round will be played to the end, beside the only seed of the night, Gerwyn Price, the two debutants Martin Lukeman and Madars Razma will stand at the oche.
Schedule, Results
Report and Statistics third day
5. October
On the second day of the tournament the last eight first round matches took place. Martin Lukeman caused the biggest upset so far
by eliminating James Wade - one of the seeded players. Wade never really was in the match and Lukeman used his chances.
With Michael Smith in the last match of the first round another seed was eliminated - he lost to Nathan Aspinall. As well eliminated was number 8
seed Rob Cross who lost to Daryl Gurney.
Only one of the seed of the second night - Gerwyn Price - progressed into the second round. Price had no problems at all against German
Martin Schindler. The night's other winners were Joe Cullen, Ross Smith, Madars Razma
and Danny Noppert.
Today the second round will begin in Leicester in which Monday's winners will stand on stage.
Schedule, Results
Report and Statistics second daynew
4. October
Jose de Sousa was the only seed who was eliminated on the first night - he lost a highclass and thrilling match
0:2 to Adrian Lewis. Michael van Gerwen, Peter Wright and reigning champion Jonny Clayton won their first round matches
though Clayton made it rather hard for him against Dirk van Duijvenbode due to a very slow start into the match. The other winners
of the night were Krzystztof Ratajski, Chris Dobey, Stephen Bunting and Dimitri van den Bergh.
Tonight in Leicester the first round will be played to the end. Seeded players of the night are Gerwyn Price, James Wade, Michael Smith and Rob Cross. Today the three debutants Martin Schindler, Martin Lukeman and Madars Razma will stand on stage. They will play against Gerwyn Price, James Wade and Ryan Searle.
Schedule, Results
Report and Statistics First Day
Beau Greaves dominated the WDF Europe Cup as well - she won the Women's Singles and together with Deta Hedman the
Women's Pairs. The English Team won the final of the Team competition against Team Netherlands with 9:1. That means England was the overall women's
winner.
The Men's Singles for the first time ever had with Jacques Labre French winner. The Men's Pairs were won by the English Pair Williams/Richardson. The Team competition was won by Team England 9:8 against Team Netherlands. England was the overall men's winner as well.
WDF Europe Cup
3. October
Tonight in Leicester the PDC World Grand Prix will begin. The first eight matches of the first round will be played.
From the seeded players reigning champion Jonny Clayton, World Champion Peter Wright, Michael van Gerwen and
Jose de Sousa will stand at the oche. The tournament will be opened by the match between Callan Rydz and Krzysztof Ratajski.
Schedule, Results
2. October
Provisional Tournament Calendar 2023
Premier League 2023
European Tour 2023
Players Championships 2023
Women's Series 2023
Challenge Tour 2023
Development Tour 2023
30. September
On Monday in Leicester the PDC World Grand Prix will begin, a tournament which is played in the unusally modus of Double In, Double Out and in which
the short format of the first round often produces some upsets.
BoyleSports, title sponsor and betting company, has in his betting ranking Gerwyn Price as first favourite to win the event followed by Peter Wright and Michael van Gerwen on second place and Jonny Clayton, the reigning champion, placed fourth.
Preview
27. September
By now the PDC published the schedule for the first round.
The tournament will be opened on 3. October with the match between Callan Rydz and Krzysztof Ratajski. The reigning champion Jonny Clayton will stand on stage as well during the first night against Dirk van Duijvenbode as one of four seeded players The last match of the first round will be played on 4. October - the match between Michael Smith and Nathan Aspinall.
Schedule
Tomorrow in Gandia, Spain, the WDF Europe Cup 2022 will begin.
Men's Teams from 41 countrys and women's teams from 35 countries take part in it. Eight teams each will be seeded in the Team events. Played as well will be single and pairs events.
There will be a Live Stream for the event: Europe Cup Stream
WDF Europe Cup
The PDC already published the venues and the dates of the World Series of Darts 2023.
Again the World Series will consist of five international events and the final. But next year only two events in Down Under will be played - the New Zealand Darts Masters and the New South Wales Darts Masters which again will take place in August. And again the Nordic Darts Masters and the U.S.Darts Masters will be played next year though the Nordic Darts Masters will already take place in January. As well in January the new Bahrain Darts Masters will be played. The final will as this year take place in September in Amsterdam.
World Series of Darts
At the weekend the first PDC Asian Championship was played in Fukuoka in Japan. Winner was Christian Perez from the Philippines who defeated
in the final his fellow countryman Paolo Nebrida with 7:5. By this Perez qualified for both the PDC World Championship and
the Grand Slam of Darts.
Beside Perez runner-up Nebrida and the two semifinalist of the tournament Lourence Ilagan - as well from the Philippines - and Japanese Toro Suzuki qualified for the PDC World Championship too.
26. September
After the Belgian Darts Open the field of participants is known PDC World Grand Prix. The tournament will beplayed from 3. - 9. Ovtober in Leicester.
Ross Smith secured himself the last qualifying spot by progessing into the second round of the Belgian Darts Open.
The draw already took place. Reigning champion Jonny Clayton will open his campaing against Dirk van Duijvenbode while the World Number 1 Gerwyn Price will begin against Martin Schindler and World Champion Peter Wright will play against Kim Huybrechts.
World Grand Prix, Participants, Draw First Round
PDC Rankings
European Tour
25. September
With a 8:6 defeat of Andrew Gilding - the surprise player of the event - Dave Chisnall won the Belgian Darts Open. For Chisnall it was the first
title since three years. Before Chisnall won on finals day in the third round against Nathan Aspinall and a prevailed in an astonishing
one sided quarterfinal 6:2 over Jose des Sousa. In his outstanding semi-final against Danny Noppert Chisnall
threw in the first leg a nine-darter. Gilding, who entered the tournament as an unseeded player, defeated on finals day first
Niels Zonneveld, eliminated in the quarterfinals Martin Schindler and won a highclass semi-final against
Jonny Clayton.
Statistics
Report Finals Daynew
Today the tournament will be played to the end. In the afternoon session the third round will take place, in
the evening session quarterfinals, semi-finals and final will be played.
Four of the seeded players were eliminated in the second round. Damon Heta lost a close match to Rusty-Jake Rodriguez, Dimitri van den Bergh was defeated 5:6 by Andrew Gilding. Peter Wright lost with the same result due to a comeback of his opponent Niels van Zonneveld. Michael van Gerwen was defeated 4:6 by Kim Huybrechts who ended the match with a sensational 134 finish (Triple 18, Double 20, Double 20)and punished the Dutchman for his many missed doubles. Huybrechts is the only Belgian player still in the tournament.
Schedule, Results
24. September
On the second day of the tournament the seeded players join the tournament and play against the first round
winners. Again an afternoon - and an evening session will take place.
To the disappointment of the impressive Belgian crowd all five Host Nation Qualifiers were eliminated first round while the two Belgian Tour Card Qualifiers Mike de Decker and Kim Huybrechts progressed with wins over Remo Mandiau (one of the Host Nation qualifiers) and Steve West into the second round.
Schedule, Results
Statistics
23. September
Today in Wieze in Belgium the Belgian Darts Open - the penultimate European Tour Event of the year and the last
which still counts for World Grand Prix in October - will begin.
Luke Humphries, Gerwyn Price and Michael Smith withdrew before the draw. Martin Schindler, Gabriel Clemens and Adrian Lewis moved up as seeded players and by the Host Nation Qualifier five tournament places were on offer. Qualified have Andy Baetens, Wouter Vanrolleghem, Roberto Vandaele, Remo Mandiau and Francois Schweyen.
As always on the first day of the tournament today the first round will be played in an afternoon and an evening session. Only the qualifiers will stand at the oche.
Belgian Darts Open, Results
Statistics
21. September
This years World Youth Championship will take place after the last Development Tour weekend on 9. October in Wigan.
By now already the international qualifiers and the PDC Tour Card holders of eligible age are known.
The other tournament places will be secured over Development Order of Merit after the last
Development Tour event of the year.
You can find the already known participants here:
PDC Winmau World Youth Championship, Participants
19. September
At the weekend in Leicester five Events of the PDC Challenge Tour took place. They had with
Robert Owen, Wesley Plaisier, Jurjen van der Velde, Christian Kist and Scott Williams five different winners.
For Williams it was already the fourth win on the Challenge Tour this year, for van der Velde the second.
Williams sits still far ahead on the first place of the Challenge Tour Ranking while Owen moved up to second place just
ahead of Danny van Trijp.
PDC Challenge Tour
18. September
In an extremly close final Gerwyn Price defeated Dirk van Duijvenbode with 11:10 and for the second time won the World Series title.
Van Duijvenbode had most of the times the lead but Price always managed to draw. In the deciding leg it was Price who reached with his higher scores
a finish first and with a two-dart 90 Checkout won the match.
Before Price defeated in the semi-finals James Wade with 11:9 while van Duijvenbode prevailed 11:8 over Jonny Clayton.
Statistics
Report Final
On the last day the tournament it will be played to the end in an afternoon- and an evening session.
The quarterfinals in the afternoon session were a thrilling affair. First Gerwyn Price defeated Joe Cullen with 10:8 in a match in which the lead changed several times and in which Price despite his much higher average never seemed to get rid of Cullen. After that Dirk van Duijvenbode prevailed in a very close and even match with 10:9 over Ryan Joyce. The third quarterfinal was far less hard fought as Michael Smith just never was really in the game - he lost 5:10 to James Wade. In the last quarterfinal reigning champion Jonny Clayton met crowd favourite Michael van Gerwen. Clayton was soon 4:1 in front but van Gerwen settled and got the lead. But Clayton didn't give in, got stronger and stronger and battled back. Van Gerwen had no chance - he lost 7:10.
Tonight in the semi-finals first Gerwyn Price will play against James Wade before reigning champion Clayton will meet Dirk van Duijvenbode, the last Dutchman still in the event.
Schedule, Results
17. September
In the first round of the event we did see some not expected results. American Leonard Gates prevailed over
Devon Petersen and Canadian Matt Campbell won 6:3 against Vincent van der Voort. World Champion Peter Wright
had some problems against Fallon Sherrock especially as he had problems to hit his doubles while his opponent was absolutely
clinical but he won 6:4.
Wright will play tonight in round 2 against Michael Smith. Reigning champion Jonny Clayton will meet Danny Noppert and Michael van Gerwen will play against the last night convincing Damon Heta.
Schedule, Results
Statistics
16. September
Tonight in Amsterdam the final of this year's World Series of Darts will begin.
In the first round today sixteen players will stand at the oche who either were invited or qualified by the qualifier. Among them are beside World Champion Peter Wright - who couldnt take part in all World Series Events - players from the Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, North America and South Africa. Wright will play for a place in the second round against Fallon Sherrock.
Tomorrow the seeds will enter the tournament. One of them will reigning champion Jonny Clayton who will play against the winner of the first round match between Simon Whitlock and Danny Noppert.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Statisticsnew
Preview
14. September
The PDC World Grand Prix is the next major PDC tournament. It will take place in October in Leicester. Only the Belgian Darts Open from 23. - 25. September in Wieze will still count for qualification.
How the field of participants looks before this event you can find here:
Participants World Grand Prix - on 14. September
WDF Rankings
13. September
At the weekend the last events of this year's CDC Premier Darts Circuit were played in Waterdown, Canada.
They were won by Danny Baggish, Jim Long and Jacob Taylor.
Danny Baggish is after the end of the season head of the table and by this qualified for the PDC World Championship. In second place sits Canadian David Cameron who as the best placed Canadian as well qualified for the PDC World Championship where he will give his debut.
CDC Circuit
12. September
Peter Wright is the most consitent player of the tournament and wins the final against against
Dimitri van den Bergh - who was not in the best of his health on Finals Day - deservedly with 8:6.
For Wright it was the first title on the European Tour since 2017, for van den Bergh
his second final.
In the semi-finals stood Jose de Sousa and Joe Cullen. Martin Schindler was the only host nation player still in the tournament on Sunday. He lost in the third round to Gerwyn Price.
German Darts Open - Participants, Schedule, Results
Statistics
Report Finals Daynew
PDC Rankings
European Tour
9. September
Tomorrow in Jena, Germany, the German Darts Open will begin. As always on the first day for the first round
only the qualifiers will stand at the oche. An afternoon and an evening session will take place.
Michael van Gerwen, Michael Smith, Adrian Lewis and Darren Webster withdrew from the tournament. As a result Dave Chisnall and Martin Schindler move up as seeded players while Ross Smith, Lewy Williams, Steve Beaton and Joe Murnan all get a bye in the first round.
German Darts Open - Participants, Schedule, Results
Statisticsnew
7. September
In all other sports coaches are the order of the day. Why not in the sport of darts even though the benefits
of coaches are a well-known truth? The Darts Performance Centre coaching clinic blog trys to figure it out.
On the trail of a Darts Coach! We look at why there is a lack of coaches in darts!
Raymond Smith and Beau Greaves were the winners of the Australian Darts Open. At the Pacific Masters Lisa Ashton and
WDF World Champion Neil Duff got the titles. The youth events were won by Mitchell Galby and Faith Kainuku.
Winners of the Australian Murray Bridge Classic were Brandon Weening and Melina van den Kieboom.
Winners of the Antwerp Open were Jamie Lewis and Aletta Wajer, the Belgium Open were won by Wesley Plaisier and Laura Turner. The youth events saw two players pick up title doubles - Enrico Frank and Jana Leys. The Swedish Open were won by Kai Fan Leung and Lorraine Winstanley, the Swedish Masters by Dennie Olde Kalter and Aileen de Graaf.
In New Zealand as well a ranking event took place. At the John Wilkie Memorial Jonathan Tata and Weny Harper got the titles while the youth event was won by Jack Sheppard.
5. September
PDC Rankings
European Tour
4. September
Joe Cullen defeated William O'Connor in the final of the Hungarian Darts Trophy with 8:2 and won the title.
So in the end one of the seeded players was the winner. Cullen showed his best performances in the semi-final and final.
With Nathan Aspinall another seed reached the semi-finals. The other semi-finalist was Dave Chisnall.
Hungarian Darts Trophy - Participants, Schedule, Results
Statistics
Report Finals Daynew
Today in Budapest the Hungarian Darts Trophy will be played to the end.
In the afternoon-session the third round will take place, in the evening session quarterfinals, semi-finals and
the final will follow.
Ten from fifteen seeded players didn't survive the second round - among them Michael van Gerwen who once again was defeated by Simon Whitlock. Peter Wright as well was eliminated despite he played really well at his first appearance after his surgery by Jim Williams.
Hungarian Darts Trophy - Participants, Schedule, Results
3. September
On the second day of the Hungarian Darts Trophy the seeded players play against the first round winners.
Again an afternoon and an evening session will take place.
All Hungarian qualifiers were eliminated first round. The best performances in the first round showed Daryl Gurney and Stephen Bunting who both averaged over 100.
Hungarian Darts Trophy - Participants, Schedule, Results
2. September
Today in Budapest the Hungarian Darts Trophy will begin. As always on the first day for the first round
only the qualifiers will stand at the oche. An afternoon and an evening session will take place.
The tournament will be opened by the match between German Frank Roetzsch and Latvian Madars Razma. With Andras Borbely, Levente Sarai, Pal Szekely and Janos Vegsö four Hungarian qualifiers will stand on stage today. One of the highlights probably will be the match between Raymond van Barneveld and Rowby-John Rodriguez in the evening session.
Gerwyn Price and Rowby-John Rodriguez withdrew on short notice.
Hungarian Darts Trophy - Participants, Schedule, Results
1. SeptemberWorld Series of Darts - Final
PDC World Championship - Day 13
Yesterday the fourth round of the tournament was played to the end. Today is the usual New Year's Eve break before on
New Year's Day the quarterfinals will be played.
The last six matches of the fourth round were all quite one-sided, but there were a few surprise winners. The afternoon-session started with a clear 4:0 win from Dimitri van den Bergh over Kim Huybrechts. In the second match German Gabriel Clemens wrote history: he progressed as the first ever German player in the quarterfinals of a PDC World Championship. Clemens dominated the match and defeated the last unseeded player still in the tournament - Alan Soutar - with 4:1. With the same result ended the last match of the afternoon-session: Joe Cullen had no chance at all against Michael Smith. Not much better then Joe Cullen fared in the first match of the evening -session surprisingly Rob Cross who lost 2:4 to Chris Dobey. Without a chance was as well Dirk van Duijvenbode against Michael van Gerwen who won as well 4:1. Another surprise had the last fourth round match in store - Stephen Bunting won 4:1 against Luke Humphries.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew
Schedule Quarterfinals
29. December
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 13
Today in both the afternoon- and the evening-session three matches of the fourth round will be played.
Match of the day: Personal Favourite: Gabriel Clemens v Alan Soutar. Impartial: Michael van Gerwen v Dirk van Duijvenbode
Today's Day's Specials: It is only the second time that at the PDC World Championship two Belgian players meet. 2014 Kim Huybrechts was drawn first round against his brother Ronny Huybrechts, Kim won with 3:1.
What you should know as well: Gabriel Clemens already stands for the second time in the fourth round and he ist still so far the only German player who managed it. In this year with Gabriel Clemens and Martin Schindler for the first time two German players qualified by the Order of Merit for the World Championship.
Schedule Day 13
Statisticsnew
PDC World Championship - Day 12
On the twelfth day of the tournament first the last four third round matches were played and Dirk van Duijvenbode, Rob Cross, Stephen
Bunting and Luke Humphries prevailed. Dirk van Duijvenbode won as last year the hard fought match against Ross Smith while a strong playing Bunting
won against an almost as outstanding Dave Chisnall. After that the first two fourth round matches took place. Gerwyn Price
had no problems against Jose de Sousa, but the match between Jonny Clayton and Josh Rock was a real battle. In the end Clayton won who
impressed with his clinical finishing.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew
29. December
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 12
At the PDC World Championship the third round will be played to the end and the fourth round will begin. In the afternoon-session three third round and in the evening-session one third round and
two fourth round matches will take place.
Match of the day: Personal Favourite: Jonny Clayton v Josh Rock. Impartial: Dirk van Duijvenbode v Ross Smith
Today's Day's Specials: Dave Chisnall due to a positive Covid 19 test was eliminated from last year's World Championship but a few weeks later reached the final of The Masters
What you should know as well: Today with Mervyn King the oldest participant in this year's World Championship stands at the oche. For King - born 1966 - who started his career in the BDO it is already the 27. World Championship in a row. He reached the final of the BDO World Championship twice. His best PDC World Championship result so far was the semi-final 2009
Schedule Day 12, Ergebnisse
Statistiknew
PDC World Championship - Tag 11
On the eleventh day of the tournament the third round continued with some upsets and a lot of drama. In the afternoon-session
both Jose de Sousa and unseeded Alan Soutar reached the fourth round with strong comebacks. De Sousa's comeback
only started after Searle missed one matchdart for a 4:1 win. After that Chris Dobey eliminated Gary Anderson with a clear
4:1 win from the tournament. In the evening-session Joe Cullen and Michael van Gerwen dominated their matches - despite Suljovic' strong performance against von Gerwen.
With the last match a real thriller between Martin Schindler and Michael Smith followed. Smith as well had to come back
from 1:3 to win the match 4:3.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew
28. December
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 11
At the PDC World Championship the third round continues, again an afternoon- and an evening -session with three matches each will be played.
Match of the day: Personal Favourite: Ryan Searle v Jose de Sousa. Impartial: Michael Smith v Martin Schindler
Today's Day's Specials: With Alan Soutar another non seeded player stands at the oche today. Soutar got his Tour Card in 2021 and moved up the rankings from then. Today he is ranked 36 in the PDC Order of Merit. He qualified last year for the PDC World Championship as well and lost in the last 16 at his debut.
What you should know as well: Gary Anderson not only supported Michael Smith at the begin of his career but Chris Dobey too. They met at the PDC World Championship 2019 as well , that year under the Last 16. Anderson defeated Dobey 4:3.
Schedule Day 11
PDC World Championship - Day 10
After the end of the Christmas break yesterday the third round started with several upsets and surprising results. The biggest upset to be sure
was that reigning champion Peter Wright was eliminated by Kim Huybrechts. Nathan Aspinall was eliminated by Josh Rock who continued his
astonishing debut. Raymond van Barneveld was far less impressive as he had been in the Grand Slam where he won twice against Gerwyn Price. This time
Price got a very clear 4:0 win against the Dutchman. German Gabriel Clemens defeated in the dramatic match of the day Jim Williams. No problems
at all had Dimitri van den Bergh against Krzysztof Ratajski and Jonny Clayton against Brendan Dolan.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew
27. December
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 10
The Christmas break is over and the tournament continues with the third round which is played today in an afternoon- and an evening-session.
Match of the day: Personal Favourite: Nathan Aspinall v Josh Rock. Impartial: Gerwyn Price v Raymond van Barneveld
Today's Day's Specials: Nathan Aspinall is the only English player today on stage. Beside him we will see today three Welshmen, two Belgians, two Irishmen, a Scotsman - reigning champion Peter Wright, a German, a Dutchman and a Pole.
What you should know as well: This year only three unseeded players reached the third round: Josh Rock, Jim Williams and Alan Soutar. With Josh Rock and Jim Williams two will stand at the oche today.
Schedule Day 10, Results
Statisticsnew
23. December
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 9
The last day before the Christmas break and the last day of the second round which is played to the end in an afternoon- and an evening-session.
Match of the day: Personal Favourite: Martin Schindler v Martin Lukeman. Impartial: Rob Cross v Scott Williams
Today's Day's Specials: For Brendan Dolan it is already the 15. PDC World Championship. His best results so far were the quarterfinals in 2019.
What you should know as well: Today seven players will stand at the oche who took at some time of their career part in BDO/WDF World Championships: Darius Labanauskas, Ross Smith, Martijn Kleermaker, David Cameron, Danny Noppert, Scott Williams and Jimmy Hendriks. Noppert even reached the final of the BDO World Championship 2017.
Schedule Day 9, Results
Statisticsnew
PDC World Championship - Day 8
The eighth day of the World Championship was a difficult day for some of the seeded players. One of them - James Wade - even was eliminated from the
tournament. Dirk van Duijvenbode, Gary Anderson and Luke Humphries had to give all for their wins. Quite comfortable wins got Ryan Searle, Mensur Suljovic,
Krzysztof Ratajski and Vincent van der Voort.
Results
Statisticsnew
22. December
30 Years PDC World Championship - 30 years Dutch participants? - 2
Roland Scholten was the first Dutchman to become a PDC Top player and he stayed it for several years. He took part in six BDO and in twelve PDC World Chanpionships before a neck and shoulder injury ended his career. During his years in the PDC several other Dutch players qualified for the PDC World Championship but none of those stayed in the PDC. 2003 it was the today forgotten Arjan Moen.
30 Years PDC World Championship - 30 years Dutch participants? - 2new
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 8
The first round is over and so on the eighth day of the PDC World Championship both in the afternoon and in the evening session four second round matches will be played.
When you feel the first round this year was not as good as in the years before you are not wrong. This year's overall
average was 87.07 while in 2020 it was 88.99, in 2021 88.81 and in 2022 88.22.
Match of the day: Personal Favourite: Luke Humphries v Florian Hempel. Impartial: Ryan Searle v Adam Gawlas
Today's Day's Specials: German Florian Hempal is today the only player who qualified neither by the PDC Order of Merit nor by the PDC Pro Tour Order of Merit. He qualified as the winner of the PDC Europe Super League.
What you should know as well: With Luke Humphries today the PDC World Youth Champion from 2019 will stand at the oche. By now he is the number 5 in the World. He defeated in the final Adam Gawlas 6:0. Gawlas as weel will be on stage today. He is ranked 73 in the PDC Order of Merit. But Gawlas is quite accurately seven years younger then Humphries...
Schedule Day 8new
PDC World Championship - Day 7
On Day 7 of the tournament first the last two first round matches took place which were won by Darius Labanauskas and Martijn Kleermaker.
In the following two second round matches of the afternoon session the Irish debutant Josh Rock could celebrate a surprisingly clear
3:0 win over seeded upcoming player Callan Rydz who had a pitchblack day and after that Dave Chisnall won a hard fought match against Andrew Gilding with
3:1. The evening session brought wins for all four seeded players Mervyn King, Gabriel Clemens, Michael van Gerwen and
Stephen Bunting though Mervyn King had to give all against American Danny Baggish.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew
21. December
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 7
Day seven of the PDC World Championship 2022/23. An afternoon session with the last two first round matches and two second round matches will be played
while in the evening session four second round matches will take place.
Match of the day: Personal Favourite: Callan Rydz v Josh Rock. Impartial: Michael van Gerwen v Lewy Williams
Debutants of the day: John O'Shea, Xicheng Han
Today's Day's Specials: With Stephen Bunting after Steve Beaton, Richie Burnett and Raymond van Barneveld the fourth former BDO World Champion will stand at the oche today. Mervyn King and Dave Chisnall both reached BDO World Championship finals. For Bunting, Chisnall and King the best PDC World Championship result was the semi-final. King reached it 2009, Bunting and Chisnall both 2021.
What you should know as well: In last year's World Championship both Darius Labanauskas and Michael van Gerwen threw a nine-darter
Schedule Day 7, Resultsnew
Statisticsnew
PDC World Championship - Day 6
The seeded player of the day Raymond van Barneveld prevailed in the last match of the night with 3:1 over a solid playing Ryan Meikle and will meet in
the third round once again Gerwyn Price. Ricky Evans defeated Fallon Sherrock in an evenly matched game 3:2. Evans was more clinical on his doubles which
made the difference. Beside there were wins of debutant Jimmy Hendriks in a tenacious match over Jamie Hughes and of Jim Williams over young Pole Sebastian Bialecki.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew
20. December
30 Years PDC World Championship - 30 years Dutch participants? - 1
Though Global Darts could't travel to London nevertheless this years World Championship will be again accompanied by some articles.
The PDC World Championship celebrates this year its 30. anniversary as Raymond van Barneveld celebrates his 30. World Championship. But that is coincidence. The articles will tell you how it really was with the PDC World Championship and the Dutch participants taking part.
30 Years PDC World Championship - 30 years Dutch participants? - 1new
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 6
On the sixth of the PDC World Championship 2022/23 only an evening session will be played
with three first round - and one second round match.
Match of the day: Personal Favourite: Ricky Evans v Fallon Sherrock. Impartial: Raymond van Barneveld v Ryan Meikle
Debutants of the day: Sebastian Bialecki, Jimmy Hendriks
Seeded Player of the day: Raymond van Barneveld
Today's Day's Specials: For van Barneveld it is already the 30. World Championship. 14 times he took part in the BDO World Championship and won four times. For the 16. time he takes part in the PDC World Championship and so far won it once
What you should know as well: The two debutants of the day Sebastian Bialecki and Jimmy Hendricks started the career in different ways. While the around ten years younger Bialecki from the start tried to make an impact in the PDC playing on the Devlopment Tour (though he was part of the national Polish team which took part in the WDF Europe Cup 2022) Jimmy Hendricks started es part of the BDO/WDF youth system winning 2011 the WDF World Cup Youth and the Youth World Masters and only is involved with the PDC since 2017.
Schedule Day 6, Resultsnew
Statisticsnew
PDC World Championship - Day 5
Jose de Sousa and Gerwyn PRice - the two seeded players of the fifth day - won their matches and progressed into the third round. De Sousa
needed against Simon Whitlock a remarkable comeback as the Australian already had been 2:0 in the lead. Gerwyn Price lost the first set to Simon Whitlock
but after that controlled the match. Four of the debutants of the day won their matches: Danny Jansen, Danny Van Trijp, Leonard Gates - who danced into the hearts of the
crowd - and David Cameron who surprised with his win over Ritchie Edhouse. Beside Lewy Williams only just missed the nine-darter to win his match against Niels Zonneveld.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew
19. December
Littler wins JDC World Championship
In the Alexandra Palace today as well the final of the JDC World Championship between Hugh Littler and Harry Gregory took place.
Littler dominated the match and won with 5:0.
Reportnew
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 5
Today, on day five of the PDC World Championship 2022/23 again an afternoon and an evening session will be played
with three first round - and one second round match each.
Match of the day: Personal Favourite and impartial: Jose de Sousa v Simon Whitlock
Debutants of the day: Robert Owen, Danny Jansen, Paolo Nebrida, Leonard Gates, David Cameron, Danny van Trijp
Seeded Player of the day: Jose de Sousa, Gerwyn Price
Today's Day's Specials:Today we have even six debutants! Though I find it difficult to call one of them, David Cameron, a debutant. He was some kind of ever present in the BDO World Championship from 2014 - 2020. Beside he won the World Senior Darts MAsters in 2022. Cameron qualified as best Canadian on the CDC Tour for his first PDC World Championship.
What you should know as well: For Steve Beaton it is already the 32. World Championship in a row. From 1992 - 2001 he took part in every BDO World Championship, from 2002 till today in all PDC World Championships. He only won once in 1996. Beside he reached in 1993 and 1997 the semi-finals of the BDO World Championship. In the PDC World Championship he never got further then the Last 16.
Schedule Day 5, Results
Statisticsnew
PDC World Championship - Day 4
Both seeded winners of the fourth day won their matches - Damon Heta defeated Adrian Lewis, who couldn't keep up his first round performance -
with 3:0, Nathan Aspinall prevailed 3:1 over Boris Krcmar. The outstanding match of the day and the tournament so far was the match between Scott Williams and
Ryan Joyce, in which both players had an average of over 100 and which was won by Scott Williams with 164 Finish 3:1. Another
highlight of the day was Karel Sedlacek's 3:0 win over Raymond Smith - Sedlacek averaged 98.72.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew
18. December
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 4
On the fourth day of the PDC World Championship 2022/23 again afternoon and an evening session will be played
each with three first round - and one second round match.
Match of the day: Personal Favourite: Scott Williams v Ryan Joyce. Impartial: Damon Heta v Adrian Lewis
Debutants of the day: Prakash Jiwa, Vladyslav Omelchenko, Scott Williams
Seeded Player of the day: Damon Heta, Nathan Aspinall
Today's Day's Specials: Matches between a Canadian and and US American player so far didn't happen often in the PDC World Championship. 1998 John Part won 3:1 against Paul Lim who in this year still represented the USA. 2009 John Part lost 0:3 to American Bill Davies. And today we'll see Canadian Matt Campbell play against American Danny Baggish
What you should know as well: Though Prakash Jiwa gives his debut as Indian qualifier today he is far from unknown in the PDC. Jiwa had a Tour Card from 2011 -2018, he regained it three times during those years in Q School. Since then he plays on the Challengen Tour. 2022 he decided no longer to play for England but to represent India, took part in the Indian World Championship Qualifier and won it.
Schedule Day 4, Results
Statisticsnew
PDC World Championship - Day 3
On the third day of the tournament with Daryl Gurney the first seeded player was eliminated from the event. He lost
0:3 to Alan Soutar who again impressed. In contrast the second seeded player, Dimitri van den Bergh, showed the so far best
performance of the tournament and won 3:0 over Lourence Ilagan who had no chance at all. With Martin Lukeman, Adam Gawlas, Cameron Menzies and
Josh Rock four of the debutants progressed into the second round. Lisa Ashton missed out on her first win in the Ally Pally.
She had managed to come back from 0:2 against Ryan Meikle and to draw 2:2 but in the fifth set she couldn't keep up any longer.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew
17. December
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 3
On the third day of the PDC World Championship 2022/23 an afternoon and an evening session will be played
each with three first round - and one second round match.
Match of the day: Personal Favourite: Simon Whitlock v Christian Perez. Impartial: Ryan Meikle v Lisa Ashton
Debutants of the day: Martin Lukeman, Nobohiro Yamamoto, Adam Gawlas, Cameron Menzies, Josh Rock
Seeded Player of the day: Daryl Gurney, Dimitri van den Bergh
Today's Day's Specials: Probably there was never before a day at a PDC World Championship on which five debutants from five different countries stood at the oche
What you should know as well: With Lisa Ashton and Richie Burnett two former and with Josh Rock a reigning World Champion will stand on stage. Added are former BDO World Championship runner-up Simon Whitlock and Cameron Mezies who stood 2022 in the semi-finals of the WDF World Championship
Schedule Day 3
PDC World Championship - Day 2
On the second day of the tournament in the afternoon-session only one-sided matches were pplayed which ended with 3:0 wins for Alan Soutar, Boris Krcmar, Adrian Lewis
and Kim Huybrechts. It was more thrilling in the evening-session where in the first match Lourence Ilagan won a very close match Rowby-John Rodriguez. William O'Connor won after this with
3:0 against Beau Greaves but Greaves as well set some highlights and two of the sets went into the deciding legs. In the third match Florian Hempel only just
prevailed over Keegan Brown who lost his Tour Card in defeat. The final match of the day was again a very one-sided one -
Michael Smith won 3:0 over Nathan Rafferty and didn't lose a single leg.
Results
Statistics, Reportnew
16. December
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 2
On the second day of the PDC World Championship 2022/23 and afternoon and an evening session will be played
each with three first round - and one second round match.
Match of the day: Personal Favourite: William O'Connor v Beau Greaves. Impartial: Michael Smith v Nathan Rafferty
Debutants of the day: Mal Cuming, Beau Greaves
Seeded Player of the day: Kim Huybrechts, Michael Smith
Today's Day's Specials: International Day at the Ally Pally - Australia, Scotland, Japan, Croatia, Belgium, Sweden, South Africa, Austria, the Philippines, the Republic of Ireland, Germany, Northern Ireland and England will be represented.
What you should know as well: Mal Cuming, Daniel Larsson and Alan Soutar all played in BDO World Championships as well. For Michael Smith it is already the twelfth PDC World Championship, for Keegan Brown and Rowby-John Rodriguez it is World Championship number seven.
Schedule Day 2new
15. December
PDC World Championship - Day 1
The first round matches on the first day of the tournaments brought two smaller upsets - both debutants won their matches. South African
Grant Sampson defeated in a scrapy match Keane Barry with 3:1 and Nathan Rafferty prevailed in a close match 3:2 over Jermaine Wattimena.
Mickey Mansell won without problems the opening match of the tournament 3:1 against Ben Robb but had in the second round match against
reigning champion Peter Wright no chance - Wright won 3:0.
Resultsnew
Statistics, Reportnew
PDC World Championship - Five Minutes Analysis Day 1
Today in the Alexandra Palace in London the PDC World Championship 2022/23 will begin. Only an evening session will be played
with three first round - and one second round match.
Match of the day: Personal Favourit: Jermaine Wattimena v Nathan Rafferty. Impartial: Wright v Mansell/Robb
Debutants of the day: Nathan Rafferty, Grant Sampson
Seeded Player of the day: Reigning Champion Peter Wright
Today's Day's Specials: With Keane Barry and Micky Mansell from Northern Ireland and Nathan Rafferty from the Republic of Ireland some kind of Irish night
What you should know as well: While 22 years old Nathan Rafferty will give his World Championship debut for the two years younger Keane Barry, the 2020 BDO JYouth World Champion, it is already his fourth PDC World Championship. Rafferty's best results so far were the 2021 final of the PDC World Youth Championship and the Last 16 of the Grand Slam of Darts in the same year while Barry reached this year the semi-finals of the UK Open and the last 16 of the Players Championship Finals
Schedule Day 1
14. Dezember
30 years PDC World Championship - 30. World Championship for Raymond van Barneveld
Not only the PDC World Championship celebrates this time its 30. anniversary. For Raymond van Barneveld it will be the thirtieth time he takes part
in a World Championship. Beside him only Steve Beaton managed it, who this year already qualified for the thirty-first time. Van Barneveld will enter the
the World Championship after he reached the semi-finals of the Grand Slam last month full of confidence. The PDC World Championship will
begin tomorrow.
Van Barneveld bidding to roll back the years at Cazoo World Championshipnew
WDF World Championships 2023
The dates for the WDF World Championships 2023 are not yet known but after the Winmau World Masters all
participants are already known.
You can finde here how the field of participants will look:
Participants WDF World Championships 2023new
13. Dezember
Winmau World Masters
On the final day of the Winmau World Masters the qualifiers for the men and women for the WDF World Championships 2023 took place.
Four places were on offer for the men, two for the women. The men's qualifiers were Shaun McDonald, Dutchmen Jarno Bottenberg and Arjan Kontermann
and Austrian Christian Gödl. He is the first Austrian who managed to qualify after Mensur Suljovic in 2002. The two places for the women
got Spain Almudenda Fajardo and Japanese Mayumi Ouchi. With Fajardo for the first time a female Spain qualified for
a WDF World Championship.
The participants in the WDF World Championships of the Girls and the Boys are known as well. In the final of the girl's event Italian Aurora Fochesato and Hungarian Krisztina Turai will meet. The boy's semi-finals reached Luke Littler, Dutchman Bradley van der Velden, German Mats Theobald and Irishman Adam Dee.
Report Qualifiers Women and Mennew
Report Qualifiers Girls and Boysnew
12. December
Winmau World Masters
In all four events of the Winmau World Masters we did see new winners this year.
Winner of the men's event was Dutchman Wesley Plaisier. The women's title went to Beau Greaves, who already won the girl's title before. The Boy's title went to Luke Littler who had been the favourite. In the Girls event Paige Pauling prevailed who had won the World Open as well.
Today in Assen the WDF World Championship Qaulifiers for the Women and Men will take place.
Worldmasters 22, Results
Report Day Fournew
11. December
Winmau World Masters
On the third day of the tournament in Assen the World Open of the Men and the Women took place, the two World Masters Youth events were played down till including
the semi-finals and the finals of the World ParaDarts World Masters were played. The World Open titles went to Benjamin Pratnemer and Aileen de Graaf.
Luke Littler and American Peter Stewart jnr will meet in the Boy's Final. Stewart is the first Amrican to reach this final.
In the Girls Final Paige Pauling, who already won the World Open event, and Finn Lida Lanko will clash. The ParaDarter titles went to
Canadian Wayne Chapman - standing - and Belgian Vincent D'Hondt - wheelchair.
Today the finals of all four World Masters events will be played.
Worldmasters 22, Resultsnew
Report Third Day
Trailblazer Ashton eyeing elusive Alexandra Palace victory
Lisa Ashton as well talked about her already fourth participation the the PDC World Championship. After she lost three times in the first round
she finally wants a win on the Ally Pally stage. The complete interview with Ashton can be found in the PDC World Championship programme.
Trailblazer Ashton eyeing elusive Alexandra Palace victorynew
9. December
Winmau World Masters
Yesterday in Assen in the Netherlands the Winmau World Masters began. On the first day the Floor Matches of the women and men
were played. In the men's event no former World Masters winner is in the field of the participants. Among the players who were
eliminated on the first day were the WDF World Chmapionship runner-up
Thibault Tricole and James Hurrell. In the women's event all favourites are still in the event.
Worldmasters 2022new
PDC World Championship
The PDC published the provisional schedule of the Third Round of the tournament. The Third Round will be played after the
Christmas break from 27. - 29. December.
Provisional Schedule Third Roundnew
Van Gerwen vying to create more Ally Pally history
Michael van Gerwen will go after his win of the Players Championship Finals end of November full of confindence
in the PDC World Championship. He intends to win his fourth World champion title and get back the number 1 of the world spot.
Van Gerwen vying to create more Ally Pally historynew
6. December
Additions Who is Who
As always before the PDC World Championship some of the participants had to be added to the Who is Who. This year it were: Scott Williams, Sebastian Bialecki, Xicheng Han, Paolo Nebrida, Nobuhiro Yamamoto, Robert Owen, Danny van Trijp, Grant Sampson and Vladyslav Omelchenko.
4. December
Greaves looks forward to World Championship
During a press conference to launch the upcoming PDC World Championship Beau Greaves talks about her participation in the event.
Greaves determined to enjoy Ally Pally debutnew
30. November
PDC Weltmeisterschaft
After the draw the PDC puplished now the schedule of the first and second round as well.
The tournament will begin on 15. December with the first round match between Mickey Mansell and Ben Robb. As always the reigning champion will as well begin his tournament on the first evening - Peter Wright will play against the winner of the opening match. Till including the 20. December in each session three first round and one second round match will be played. The last two first round matches will take place in the afternoon session on 21. December. After that till the Christmas break the second round will be played to the end.
Schedule First and Second Roundnew
29. November
PDC World Championship
The field of participants for the PDC World Championship 2022/23 is complete. Yesterday by the PDPA Qualifier Richie Burnett, Ryan Joyce and
Jeff Smith were the last players to qualify for the tournament.
The draw for the first and second round of the tournament took place yesterday as well. Reigning champion Peter Wright will begin his campaign against the winner of the first round match between Mickey Mansell and Ben Robb from New Zealand. The World Number 1 Gerwyn Price will play his first match against the winner of the first round game between Luke Woodhouse and Urkain's Vladyslav Omelchenko while Michael van Gerwen will begin against the winner of the first round match between Niels Zonneveld and Lewy Williams.
Participants, Draw First and Second Roundnew
27. November
Van Gerwen wins Players Championship Finals
Michael van Gerwen was unstoppable in the final of the Players Championship Finals - not even by a strong playing Rob Cross.
He won the final 6:11 and for the seventh time got the title.
In the match he delighted the crowd not only with a nine-darter but with a 170 finish as well.
Report and Statistics Finals Daynew
Rock Winmau World Youth Champion
Josh Rock is the newly crowned Winmau PDC World Youth Champion.
He defeated in a very one sided final his Scottish opponent Nathan Girvan with 6:1 and once again showed a convincing performance.
Reportnew
Players Championship Finals
On the second day of the event the second and the third round were played and the field of participants was further reduced
from 32 to 8 players. In the oustanding match of the day an unstoppable Dirk van Duijvenbode met a strong playing Ryan Searle. Van Duijvenbode won the close match with 10:9.
Today in the afternoon-session the quarterfinals will take place. In the evening-session semi-finals and final will follow. Between the semi-finals and the final the final of the Winmau World Youth Championship between Josh Rock and Nathan Girvan will be played.
Report an Statistics Second and Third Round
Schedule Finals Day, Resultsnew
26. November
Players Championship Finals
In the first round there were several - among others Gerwyn Price and Michael Smith
lost their averages and were eliminated from the tournament.The best perfomance of the first day showed Danny Noppert who
played an average of 106.59.
Today in the afternoon-session the second round is played, in the evening session the third round. Again it will be played on two stages.
Schedule Day 2, Results
Statistics Second and Third Roundnew
25. November
Players Championship Finals
Today in Minehead the Players Championship Finals will begin in which the Top 64 of the Players Championship Order of Merit take part.
Reigning champion Peter Wright withdrew due to the health issues of his wife and is replaced by
Gian van Veen.
On the Main- and the Second Stage the first round will be played.
Schedule, Participants, Results
Statistics First Roundnew
21. November
PDC Ranking
The PDC Order of Merit was updated after the Grand Slam of Darts.PDC Rankings
20. November
Michael Smith wins Grand Slam
Michael Smith defeated in the final of the Grand Slam Nathan Aspinall with 16:5 and won his first big TV title.
Smith was one of the moast consistent players of the event, he won all his group matches commandingly and he was in the final clearly the better player while Aspinall seemed to be a little bit tired. Smith was already a finalist in many TV events but so far always missed with his matchdarts.
Statistics Semi-Finals, Finalnew
Smith and Aspinall in the Final
Michael Smith and Nathan Aspinall will meet tonight in the final of the Grand Slam of Darts.
Michael Smith prevailed 16:12 over Raymond van Barneveld. For a long time it was an evenly matched game but in the end Smith managed to pull clear. The second semi-final between Nathan Aspinall and Luke Humphries was very similar - for a long time both players were on par before Aspinall pulled clear and won as well 16:12.
Bericht, Statistics Semi-Finalsnew
19. November
Aspinall and Humphries through to semi-finals
Nathan Aspinall und Luke Humphries won tonight their quarterfinals against Alan Soutar and Michael van Gerwen and will
meet tomorrow afternoon in the semi-finals.
In the first quarterfinal tonight Nathan Aspinall won 16:12 against Alan Soutar. It was a very evenly matched game in which Aspinall prevailed because he was much more clinical on his doubles then his opponent.
In the second semi-final Luke Humphries caused one of the big upsets of the tournament - he defeated Michael van Gerwen - the favourite to win the event - with 10:16. Van Gerwen couldn't keep up the brilliant performance he showed against Josh Rock and Humphries was from the start the dominant player who kept his nerve till the end.
Results
Statistics Quarterfinals 2new
Some fans dress up as dart boards...
Here comes the second article!
Again it deals mostly with darts - to be excact with the second day of the tournament. Beside you'll find a pinch of local colour.
Some fans dress up as dart boards...new
Grand Slam of Darts - Quarterfinals 2
Tonight the other two semi-finals will take place.
First Scottish debutant Alan Soutar will play against Nathan Aspinall. After that in the last quarterfinal Luke Humphries and Michael van Gerwen will clash.
Schedule, Results Quarterfinals 2
18. November
Smith and van Barneveld progressed into the semi-finals
In two thrilling quarterfinals tonight Michael Smith and Raymond van Barneveld prevailed. Joe Cullen and reigning champion
Gerwyn Price were eliminated.
First Michael Smith played against Joe Cullen. Cullen most of the time was in the lead till 15:13. But then Smith managed to win three legs in a row to win 16:15. In the second quarterfinal between Gerwyn Price and Raymond van Barneveld Price was 3:8 in the lead. But the Dutchman won the seven following legs and took the lead which he protected to the end even though Price at one time reduced his arrears to one leg. Van Barneveld won 16:13.
Van Barneveld and Smith will meet in the semi-finals on Sunday.
Results
Bericht, Statistics Quarterfinals 1new
Grand Slam of Darts - Second Night Last 16
Though he didn't win the highclass match against a brilliant Michael van Gerwen it was Josh Rock who stood in the limelight - he threw
a nine-darter in the match but lost 8:10. After this the last match of the night between Luke Humphries and Ross Smith felt
almost boring - Humphries won with 10:8. Humphries and van Gerwen will meet in the quarterfinals on Saturday.
The other two matches of the night were won by Nathan Aspinall and Alan Soutar. Aspinall defeated without problems
Jermaine Wattimena with 10:6 while Soutar continued his dream debut and prevailed 10:8 over Jonny Clayton. So
in the other quarterfinal on Saturday Nathan Aspinall will play against Alan Soutar.
Tonight the first two quarterfinals will take place: Joe Cullen will meet Michael Smith and Gerwyn Price will play against Raymond van Barneveld, .
Results Day 6
Report, Statistics Day 6new
Schedule Day 7 - Quarterfinals 1new
16. November
Grand Slam of Darts - First Night Last 16
The dream Grand Slam for Raymond van Barneveld goes on: he defeated in the last 16 Simon Whitlock with 10:8.
Michael Smith as well won 10:8 against Rob Cross - Smith was the complete match in the lead, but couldn't really get rid of Cross.
For the third match reigning champion Gerwyn Price came on stage but the match first was dominated by his opponent Danny Noppert. Price
never gave in and finally drawed 8:8. Then he won the last two legs of the match - another 10:8 win.
The last match between Joe Cullen and Dirk van Duijvenbode was a one-sided affair - Cullen won with 10:4.
In the quarterfinals on Friday Gerwyn Price will clash -as he did already in the group phase - with Raymond van Barneveld antreten, Joe Cullen will play against Michael Smith.
Resultsnew
Statistics Day 5new
Out of Darkness Cometh Light...
Global Darts is back in Wolverhampton! And so this year again a series of articles will accompany the tournament.
Here the first article which deals mostly with the first day of the tournament and the first group matches.
Out of Darkness Cometh Light...new
Grand Slam of Darts
After the Group Phase tonight the Knockout Phase of the tournament will begin. The first four matches will be played in which
the first of the groups A-D will play seconds of the other groups.
Raymond van Barneveld opens the night against Simon Whitlock. Next on will be the match between Michael Smith and Rob Cross. In the third match Reigning Champion Gerwyn Price will meet Danny Noppert and in the last match Dirk van Duijvenbode and Joe Cullen will clash.
Schedule Day 5
Grand Slam of Darts - World Champion eliminated
Nathan Aspinall caused on the last day of the Group Phase of the Grand Slam the biggest upset - he defeated World Champion Peter Wright. By the win Aspinall moved on the
top of Group E. As Alan Soutar won against Fallon Sherrock Wright was eliminated due to the leg difference while Aspinall and
Soutar progressed into the Knockout Phase. Jermaine Wattimena defeated Leonard Gates and progressed alongside Jonny Clayton, who lost with a weak performance against Damon Heta,
from Group F into the next round. From Group G Michael van Gerwen and Ross Smith progressed who clashed
in a highclass match today which was won by Smith.
From Group H Luke Humphries and Rosh Rock progessed who as well clashed today, Rock won the match.
The highest averages of the day played Ross Smith and Scott Williams with over 107.
Results Day 4
Report, Statistics Day 4new
15. November
Grand Slam of Darts
Tonight the last group matches of Groups E-F will be played. Luke Humphries, Jonny Clayton and Michael van
Gerwen are already through to the next round. World Champion Peter Wright on the other side can't yet be sure to progress, in his
group beside him Nathan Aspinall and Alan Soutar still have a chance, only Fallon Sherrock is
eliminated. In the other groups as well not all is decided yet.
Schedule Day 4
Grand Slam of Darts - Reigning Champion battles into the next round
After a thrilling night the eight players are known who progress from Groups A - D into the Knockout Phase of the tournament.
Three matches were especially hard fought. Danny Noppert prevailed in a close match against Mensur Suljovic. Noppert had both problems with his doubles and with Suljovic's
throwing rhythm. In the highclass match of the night between Dave Chisnall and reigning champion Gerwyn Price it was the reigning champion who won with 5:4.
As close but less highclass was the last match of the night between Rob Cross and Martin Schindler. Cross won it in a final comeback sprint while
his opponent missed a lot of doubles.
Schedule, Results Day 3
Bericht, Statistics Day 3new
14. November
Grand Slam of Darts - Last Group Matches Groups A-D
Tonight the last group matches of Groups A-D will be played. So far only Raymond van Barneveld and Dirk van Duijvenbode as firsts of their groups
A and D are through to the Knockout Phase while Ted Evetts and Adam Gawlas are already eliminated.
Reigning Champion Gerwyn Price is one of the players who still has to fight - he has to win against Dave Chisnall. In Groups B and C nothing is decided yet,
in Group D the winner of Rob Cross v Martin Schindler will progress.
Schedule, Results Day 3
Grand Slam of Darts - Day 2
After the second day of the tournament on which the second group matches of all groups were played already five players are thanks to their
second wins through to the next round: Raymond van Barneveld, Dirk van
Duijvenbode, Michael van Gerwen, Jonny Clayton and Luke Humphries, who played in the last match on Sunday with 107.4 the so far
highest average of the tournament. Ted Evetts, Adam Gawlas and Fallon Sherrock are all already eliminated.
Everything else will be only decided in the last group matches which will be played in Groups
A-D on Monday and in Groups E-H on Tuesday.
Schedule, Results Day 2
Report, Statistics Day 2new
12. November
Grand Slam of Darts
On the first day of the tournament we did see wins for former champions Raymond van Barneveld and Michael van Gerwen and
reigning champion Gerwyn Price. All other seeded players won their first group matches as well. Slightly astonishing were
Luke Woodhouse, Alan Soutar and Jermaine Wattimena among the winners. The highest averages played Dirk van Duijvenbode, Rob Cross, Gerwyn Price and
Michael van Gerwen.
Today again an afternoon- and an evening-session will be played and again in the afternoon Groups A-D will play and tonight groups E-H.
Report, Statistics - Day 1
Grand Slam of Darts
Today in Wolverhampton on a sunny and warm day the Grand Slam of Darts will begin.
In an afternoon- and an evening-session the first group matches of all groups will be played.
In the afternoon sessions groups A-D will stand at the oche, tonight groups E-H.
In the afternoon session on stage: Reigning champion Gerwyn Price, who will play against Ted Evetts and Lisa Ashton, who will play in the last ,atch of the afternoon against Michael Smith. The second woman in the field of participants, Fallon Sherrock, will meet in the evening-session against Peter Wright.
Schedule, Results Day 1, Tables
Statistics
11. November
Hempel wins PDC Europe Super League
Florian Hempel defeated in the final of this year's PDC Europe Super League Niko Springer with 10:8 and secured by this a place
in the PDC World Championship. With Hempel the most consistent player won though had first to come back from 2:6 behind in the match
to win it.
Hempel prevailed in the quarterfinals over Dragutin Horvat and then defeated Daniel Klose in the semi-finals who couldn't quite keep his nerve in the deciding leg. Springer reached the final with wins over Ricardo Pietreczko and Lukas Wenig.
PDC Europe Super League - Results Finals Day
10. November
PDC Europe Super League - Day 4
Florian Hempel, Rene Eidams, Lukas Wenig and Ricardo Pietreczko progressed from Main Group A into the quarterfinals,
Niko Springer, Franz Rötzsch, Daniel Klose and Dragutin Horvat progressed from Main Group B.
Tomorrow the tournament will be played to the end. In the quarterfinals Florian Hempel will play against Dragutin Horvat, Franz Rötzsch will meet Lukas Wenig, Rene Eidams will clash with Daniel Klose and Niko Springer will play against Ricardo Pietreczko.
PDC Europe Super League - Final Standings, Quarterfinals
PDC Europe Super League
On the third day of the event, the first day of the second round, Florian Hempel again won all his seven matches. So he heads
the table of main group A followed by Lukas Wenig and Rene Eidams with five wins each on places 2 and 3. Fourth is Nico Kurz with four wins who
currently would progress into the quarterfinals as well.
In main group B Niko Springer is first in the table with six wins followed by Franz Rötzsch and Daniel Klose who both won five matches. David Schlichting and Dragutin Horvat at the moment sit in places 4 and 5. Both won four matches - they are seperated by the leg difference.
Today the second round will be played to the end.
PDC Europe Super League - Tables after Day 3
9. November
Grand Slam of Darts
On Saturday in Wolverhampton the Grand Slam of Darts will begin in which this year several big names will be missing which failed to qualify.
Among them are Gary Anderson, James Wade, Kim Huybrechts, Dimitri van den Bergh and Jose de Sousa.
As always this year there is no clear favourite on the win. The preview has a first view on the tournament.
Preview
PDC Europe Super League
The first round is played. Today second round will follow with 16 players in two groups. Florian Hempel, Daniel Klose and Niko Springer won all their matches so far, Ricardo Pietreczko only one. Quie close it was for the former German number 1 Max Hopp but in the end he mangaed to profress with five wins.
PDC Europe Super League
8. November
Grand Slam of Darts
Yesterday the groups and the first group matches of the eight groups of the round robin phase were drawn.
Reigning champion and number 1 seed Gerwyn Price was drawn into Group A together with Raymond van Barneveld, Dave Chisnall and Ted Evetts. Price will start his campaign against Ted Evetts
Groups, Schedule First Group Matches
PDC Europe Super League
Yesterday the PDC Europe Super League started. In four groups with six players each every player played five matches in a round robin format.
Three of the 24 players had a flawless start and won all five matches: Florian Hempel, Daniel Klose and Niko Springer. Today in the same format the second half of the first round will follow. The top four of each group progress into the second round.
Dragutin Horvat therew a nine-darter yesterday but only sits in fifth place of his group.
PDC Europe Super League
7. November
Grand Slam of Darts
By the Tour Card Holders Qualifier the last free places in the tournament were on offer. For the tournament -
which will begin on 12. November - Ritchie Edhouse, Raymond van Barneveld, Martin Schindler, Adam Gawlas, Alan Soutar, Luke Woodhouse, Mensur Suljovic and
Jermaine Wattimena qualified.
Participants, Schedule
Players Championships Final
After the end of the Pro Tour season the 64 for participants in the Players Championships Final are known. The tournament will be played
from 25. - 27. November in Minehead.
The first round draw already took place. Reigning champion Peter Wright will begin his campaign against Ross Smith while number 1 seed Damon Heta will play first round against German Ricardo Pietreczko.
Participants, Draw
Wins for Price qnd Wade on the Pro Tour
Gerwyn Price and James Wade were the winners of the last two Players Championships of the year.
Gerwyn Price defeated in the final of the 29. Players Championships on Friday Gian van Veen with 8:4. In the semi-finals stood Dave Chisnall and Mike de Decker.
On Saturday James Wade won the 30. Players Championship - he prevailed in the final 8:6 over Steve Beaton. Again Dave Chisnall reached the semi-finals. The second semi-finalist was German Martin Schindler
Results
PDC Ranking
The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit and the Players Championship Order of Merit were updated.PDC Rankings
Pro Tour
3. November
PDC Pro Tour
At the weekend in Barnsley the Players Championships 29 and 30 will take place, the last Players
Championships of the year. On Sunday at the same venue the Tour Card Holders
Qualifier for the Grand Slam of Darts will follow.
Among the Tour Card Tour Card Holders who didn't register are Michael van Gerwen and Danny Noppert.
Participants, Results
30. October
Ross Smith wins European Championship
Ross Smith defeated in the final of the European Championship Michael Smith with 8:11 and secured his first Major title.
Before he defeated on finals day in the quarterfinals world champion Peter Wright and prevailed in the semi-finals over Chris Dobey.
Michael Smith reached the final by wins over Luke Humphries in the quarterfinals and Dirk van Duijvenbode in the semi-finals.
Results
Statisticsnew
PDC Women's Series
Beau Greaves managed to win the last two events of this year's Women Series as well. In the 19. event she defeated in the final
Fallon Sherrock with 5:3 and played a sensational 107.86 average in the match, in the 20. event she prevailed 5:1 over Mikuru Suzuki.
By this Greaves moved up on the second place of the ranking ousting Fallon Sherrock and secured beside Lisa Ashton- who heads the
ranking - a place in the PDC World Championship.
In the semi-finals of the 19. event stood Lisa Ashton and Natalie Gilbert while in the 20. event Robyn Byrne and Rhian O'Sullivan reached the semi-finals.
Participants, Results
Ranking
European Championship - Day 3
Today in Dortmund in an afternoon-and an evening session the second round took place.
We did see two slightly surprising wins for Chris Dobey and Ross Smith who prevailed over Jose de Sousa and Dimitri van den Bergh respectively. In the all Dutch clash Danny Noppert won the close match 10:9 against Vincent van der Voort, Dirk van Duijvenbode defeated James Wade with 10:7. Luke Humphries was too strong for Ryan Searle, Michael Smith played imperiously and defeated an again great playing Josh Rock, Peter Wright gave Rowby-John Rodriguez no chance at all and Dave Chisnall somehow managed to beat Jonny Clayton.
Results
Statistics
Reportnew
PDC Women's Series
At the weekend in Wigan this year's Women's Series will be played to the end. Today and tomorrow two events each will take place.
Today both events were won by Beau Greaves who defeated in the final once Mikuru Suzuki and once Lisa Ashton. In event 17 Maria O'Brien and Lorraine Winstanley reached the semi-finals, in event 18 it were Fallon Sherrock and again Lorraine Winstanley.
Participants, Results
28. October
European Championship - Day 2
The second day of the tournament - on which the first round was played to the end - went not according to plan for some of the top players and both
Michael van Gerwen and Gerwyn Price were elimnated.
Gerwyn Price lost whith 4:6 to Rowby-John Rodiguez who was more clinical on his doubles. Michael van Gerwen came back against Chris Dobey and had a 5:4 lead. But Dobey managed to win the last two legs after both players had missed some matchdarts. The other winners of the night were an outstanding Dave Chisnall, Dimitri van den Bergh and Ross Smith who both showed strong performances, Peter Wright and Jose de Sousa who both dominated their matches and a convincing Jonny Clayton.
Results
Statisticsnew
27. October
European Championship - Day 1
Already on the first night of the tournament in Dortmund several upsets happened and beside reigning champion Rob Cross with Damon
Heta and Nathan Aspinall two more players out of the Top 10 of the European Tour Order of Merit were eliminated from the event.
Cross lost in a from both players unconvincing match to James Wade, Nathan Aspinall lost an as well very close match to debutant Josh Rock and Damon Heta was defeated by Vincent van der Voort who just hit his doubles better. The other winners of the night were Dirk van Duijvenbode, Ryan Searle, Danny Noppert, Luke Humphries and Michael Smith.
Results
Statistics
Reportnew
26. October
European Championship
Tomorrow in the Westfalenhalle in Dortmund, Germany, the European Championship 2022 will begin in which the Top 32
of the European Tour Order of Merit will take part.
The tournament will be opened tomorrow night with the match between Dirk van Duijvenbode and Madars Razma. As well among the players on stage during the first nigth of the tournament will be reigning champion Rob Cross who will play against James Wade.
Participants, Draw, Schedule
Previewnew
24. October
PDC Ranking
The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit and the Players Championship Order of Merit were updated.PDC Rankings
Pro Tour
Wins for Cross and Rock on the Pro Tour
On Saturday and Sunday Rob Cross and Josh Rock won Players Championships 27 and 28.
Rob Cross defeated in the final of the 27. Players Championship Peter Wright with 8:4. The semifinals reached Callan Rydz and Ryan Meikle.
On Sunday Josh Rock got his first Pro Tour title - he won the final of the 28. Players Championship with 8:5 against Luke Humphries. In the semifinals stood Damon Heta and for the first time German Ricardo Pietreczko.
Participants, Results
21. October
Wins for Chisnall and Heta on the Pro Tour
The first two events of the weekend in Barnsley were won by Dave Chisnall and Damon Heta.
Chisnall won the 25. Players Championship with a 8:4 triumph over Josh Rock. Both players played outstanding during the day, Chisnall had at his quarterfinal win against Luke Humphries an unbelievable 114.62 average. In the semi-finals stood Gerwyn Price and Damon Heta.
Today Damon Heta won the 26. Players Championship, he defeated in the final Dirk van Duijvenbode after a great comeback with 8:4. With Heta the most consistent player of the day was the winner. The semi-finals reached Boris Krcmar and Gerwyn Price.
Tomorrow and on Sunday two more Players Championship will be played.
Participants, Results
20. October
PDC Pro Tour
From today till Sunday in Barnsley the Players Championships 25 - 28 will be played.
Many of the participants still try to qualify for the Players Championship Finals, in which the Top 64 of the Players Championship Order of Merit
will take part. Among them are John Henderson, Darius Labanauskas and Steve West.
Participants, Results
19. October
European Championship
The schedule of the first round of the European Championship was published.
The first round match between Dirk van Duijvenbode and Madars Razma will open the tournament on Thursday night. Reigning champion Rob Cross will play against
James Wade on the first evening as well. The second first round evening on Friday is headlined by players like Peter Wright,
Michael van Gerwen and Gerwyn Price.
European Championship 2022 - Schedule first round
18. October
PDC World Championship
By now more qualifiers for the PDC World Championship took place. Diogo Portela won the Central-and South America Qualifier, Ben Robb won
the New Zealand Qualifier and Vladyslav Omelchenko won the first ever Ukrainian Qualifier and will give his Alexandra Palace debut.
How the field of participants of the World Championship looks at the moment you can find here:
PDC World Championship 2022/23 - Field of Participants on 18. October
17. October
European Championship
After the Gibraltar Darts Torphy, the last event of the European Tour 2022, all participants in the European Championship are known.
The tournament will take place from 27. - 30. October in Dortmund, Germany.
The draw for the first round already took place. Reigning champion Rob Cross will play his first round match against James Wade while number 1 seed Luke Humphries will open his campaign against Krzysztof Ratajski.
European Championship 2022
PDC Challenge Tour
At the weekend the last four events of this year's PDC Challenge Tour were played and they had four different winners.
On Saturday was "French Day" on the Challenge Tour and Thibault Tricole and Jacques Labre both celebrated
their first wins, on Sunday Andy Hamilton and Justin Smith won the last two events.
But it had no effect on the Ranking, which is still headed by Scott Williams and Robert Owen.
As Williams is already qualified for the PDC World Championship the two Challenge Tour tournament places went to Robert Owen ranked on second place and Danny van Trijp ranked third. Williams and Owen both will get a Tour Card. Should Williams be after the World Championship under the Top 64 of the Order of Merit van Trijp will get the Tour Card. Williams is as well qualified for the Grand Slam of Darts.
Challenge Tour
PDC Ranking
The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit, the European Tour Order of Merit and the Challenge Tour Order of Merit were updated.PDC Rankings
European Tour
16. October
Heta wins Gibraltar Darts Trophy
Damon Heta defeated in the final of the Gibraltar Darts Trohphy Peter Wright in a very close match with 8:7 and won his first title on the European Tour. Wright
stormed into a 3:0 lead. Heta levelled and took the lead. But Wright managed to level as well and the match went into a deciding leg in which Wright already
looked like the winner. But Heta didn't give in, both players missed several match darts before Heta finally hit the double 4 for the win.
In the semi-finals Peter Wright defeated Rob Cross with 7:1 while Heta won thanks to a convincing comeback a hard fought match against Michael van Gerwen with 7:6.
Schedule, Results
Statisticsnew
Report Finals Daynew
15. October
PDC Europe Super League
As the PDC Europe announced this year's PDC Europe Super League will be played from 7. - 11. November. As last year
it will take place in the H+ Hotel in Niedernhausen. The format will be the same as last year. Beside the Top 16 of
last year's ranking - with the exception of Martin Schindler who is already qualified by the Pro Tour Order of Merit for the PDC World Champion -
nine wild cards will take part. The wild cards were allocated predominantly to young and upcoming players. The winner of the PDC Europe Super League
will again be awarded with a place in the PDC World Championship.
PDC Europe Super League
Gibraltar Darts Trophy
Today on the second day of the event the second round will take place in an afternoon- and an evening session.
The first round winners will play against the seeded players.
From the six Host Nation Qualifiers only Craig Galliano survived the first round. He will play tonight against Peter Wright. As well tonight on stage will be reigning champion Gerwyn Price who will play in a repeat of last year's final against Mensur Suljovic.
Schedule, Results
Statisticsnew
14. October
Gibraltar Darts Trophy
The Gibraltar Darts Trophy is the 13. and last event of this year's European Tour. After the tournament all
32 participants in the European Championship are known. As always on the first day of the tournament today the first round will take place
in an afternoon - and an evening session. Only the qualifiers will stand at the oche.
Karel Sedlacek and Krzysztof Kiuc withdrew from the event. So by the Host Nation Qualifier six tournament places were on offer. Craig Galliano, Manuel Vilerio, Sean Negrette, Justin Hewitt, Dyson Parody and Dylan Duo Jr qualified.
Schedule, Resultsnew
Statisticsnew
13. October
Adam "Thorn" Smith around the World
Thorn and his travel companion stay for several days in San Jose. And of course once again Thorn tries to find darts in the town. He's quite surprised to make a find!
"The Unknown League Of Dardos Ticos"
10. October
PDC Ranking
The PDC Order of Merit was updated after the World Grand Prix.PDC Rankings
9. October
Van Gerwen wins World Grand Prix
Michael van Gerwen defeated Nathan Aspinall in a thrilling final 5:3 and won his sixth World Grand Prix title.
Van Gerwen stormed to a 4:0 lead winning two of the sets in a deciding leg. But he hadn't won the match yet as
Aspinall found a way back into the match and won the next three sets all with 3:1. In the eighth set
Aspinall managed to level 2:2 but couldn't find the Double 20 for his finish in the deciding leg and van Gerwen won the match
and the title with a Double 6.
Bericht und Statistics Finalnew
PDC World Youth Championship
Today the PDC World Youth Championship in Wigan was played down till including the semi-finals. Nathan Girvan and Josh Rock were the winners of the two semi-finals,
who will play during the Players Championship Finals on 27. November in Minehead the final. The losing semi-finalists were
Callan Rydz and Geert Nentjes. Both Girvan and Jarred Cole threw during the tournament a nine-darter.
Winners of the last two Development Tour events of the year on Saturday were Nathan Rafferty and Joshua Richardson. By this Rafferty jumped above Josh Rock in the ranking. Josh Rock and Nathan Rafferty both will take part in the Grand Slam of Darts. Rafferty and the fourth ranked Lewy Williams both will get a place in the PDC World Championship as Rock and Keane Barry are already qualified by the Pro Tour Order of Merit. As all Top Four of the rankings already have a Tour Card Geert Nentjes and probably Jurjen van Velde will get the two Tour Cards for players from the Development Order of Merit.
World Youth Championship
Development Tour - Ranking Final Standings
PDC World Grand Prix
The semi-finals night was a night of upsets - especially as both Gerwyn Price and Peter
Wright were never even near their A Game. In the first semi-final a powerful pugnacious
Nathan Aspinall prevailed with 4:2 over an only in parts convincing Gerwyn Price. Much easier it was for
Michael van Gerwen against Peter Wright who never at all was in the match and only won a single leg.
Van Gerwen won 4:0.
Tonight in the final Nathan Aspinall will play against Michael van Gerwen.
Schedule, Results
Report and Statistics Semifinalsnew
8. October
PDC World Grand Prix
Michael van Gerwen showed the best performance in the quarterfinals and defeated Chris Dobey with 3:1. Gerwyn Price had no problems against Madars Razma, who couldn't keep up
and won 3:0. The other two matches were hard fought and both were only decided in the fifth leg of the deciding fifth set.
Nathan Aspinall prevailed over Martin Lukeman and Peter Wright over Dimitri van den Bergh.
Tonight in the semi-finals first Gerwyn Price and Nathan Aspinall will meet before Michael van Gerwen will play against Peter Wright.
Schedule, Results
Report and Statistics Quarterfinals
Statistics Semifinalsnew
PDC Development Tour
Yesterday and today the last Development Tour events of the year take place in Wigan. After that all participants in the World
Youth Championship are known which will be played down tomorrow till including the semi-finals. The final will take place on 27. November during the Players Championship
Finals in Minehead.
Yesterday first Josh Rock won his fifth event of the year before Nathan Rafferty got his fourth title. Josh Rock won his final against Rusty-Jake Rodriguez while Nathan Rafferty prevailed over German Nico Springer.
At the moment Rock and Rafferty head the ranking and by this would both get a two years Tour Card and and a place in the World Championship.
Development Tour
World Youth Championship
7. October
PDC World Grand Prix
Yesterday in Leicester the second round was played to the end. For the two debutants Martin Lukeman and Madars Razma the dream debut
continued - they progressed with wins over Ross Smith and Daryl Gurney in the quarterfinals. The only seed of this half of the draw still in the tournament
- Gerwyn Price - had a slow start in his match against Joe Cullen but played two brilliant last sets and progressed as well.
The last match of the second round between Nathan Aspinall and Danny Noppert was hard fought - Noppert
won the first two sets, Aspinall leveled and battled in the deciding set over the finishing line first.
Today is quarterfinals day in Leicester. Nathan Aspinall will play against Martin Lukeman, Gerwyn Price will meet Madars Razma, Michael van Gerwen will play against Chris Dobey and Peter Wright against Dimitri van den Bergh,
Schedule, Results
Report and Statistics fourth daynew
6. October
PDC World Grand Prix
On the third day of the tournament the first four second round matches were played and it was once again a long night
as all matches were only decided in the fifth set. Headlines wrote especially Dimitri van den Bergh who eliminated reigning champion
Jonny Clayton with a convincing display. Chris Dobey prevailed in the first match of the night over Adrian Lewis.
Krzysztof Ratajski and Stephen Bunting went as the outsiders in their matches against Peter Wright and Michael van Gerwen, but they made their opponents
work hard - though in both matches the favourites won.
Tonight the second round will be played to the end, beside the only seed of the night, Gerwyn Price, the two debutants Martin Lukeman and Madars Razma will stand at the oche.
Schedule, Results
Report and Statistics third day
5. October
PDC World Grand Prix
On the second day of the tournament the last eight first round matches took place. Martin Lukeman caused the biggest upset so far
by eliminating James Wade - one of the seeded players. Wade never really was in the match and Lukeman used his chances.
With Michael Smith in the last match of the first round another seed was eliminated - he lost to Nathan Aspinall. As well eliminated was number 8
seed Rob Cross who lost to Daryl Gurney.
Only one of the seed of the second night - Gerwyn Price - progressed into the second round. Price had no problems at all against German
Martin Schindler. The night's other winners were Joe Cullen, Ross Smith, Madars Razma
and Danny Noppert.
Today the second round will begin in Leicester in which Monday's winners will stand on stage.
Schedule, Results
Report and Statistics second daynew
4. October
PDC World Grand Prix
Jose de Sousa was the only seed who was eliminated on the first night - he lost a highclass and thrilling match
0:2 to Adrian Lewis. Michael van Gerwen, Peter Wright and reigning champion Jonny Clayton won their first round matches
though Clayton made it rather hard for him against Dirk van Duijvenbode due to a very slow start into the match. The other winners
of the night were Krzystztof Ratajski, Chris Dobey, Stephen Bunting and Dimitri van den Bergh.
Tonight in Leicester the first round will be played to the end. Seeded players of the night are Gerwyn Price, James Wade, Michael Smith and Rob Cross. Today the three debutants Martin Schindler, Martin Lukeman and Madars Razma will stand on stage. They will play against Gerwyn Price, James Wade and Ryan Searle.
Schedule, Results
Report and Statistics First Day
WDF Europe Cup
Beau Greaves dominated the WDF Europe Cup as well - she won the Women's Singles and together with Deta Hedman the
Women's Pairs. The English Team won the final of the Team competition against Team Netherlands with 9:1. That means England was the overall women's
winner.
The Men's Singles for the first time ever had with Jacques Labre French winner. The Men's Pairs were won by the English Pair Williams/Richardson. The Team competition was won by Team England 9:8 against Team Netherlands. England was the overall men's winner as well.
WDF Europe Cup
3. October
PDC World Grand Prix
Tonight in Leicester the PDC World Grand Prix will begin. The first eight matches of the first round will be played.
From the seeded players reigning champion Jonny Clayton, World Champion Peter Wright, Michael van Gerwen and
Jose de Sousa will stand at the oche. The tournament will be opened by the match between Callan Rydz and Krzysztof Ratajski.
Schedule, Results
2. October
Provisional Tournament Calendar 2023
The PDC dates were added to the provisional Tournament Calendar 2023.Provisional Tournament Calendar 2023
Premier League 2023
European Tour 2023
Players Championships 2023
Women's Series 2023
Challenge Tour 2023
Development Tour 2023
30. September
PDC World Grand Prix - Preview
On Monday in Leicester the PDC World Grand Prix will begin, a tournament which is played in the unusally modus of Double In, Double Out and in which
the short format of the first round often produces some upsets.
BoyleSports, title sponsor and betting company, has in his betting ranking Gerwyn Price as first favourite to win the event followed by Peter Wright and Michael van Gerwen on second place and Jonny Clayton, the reigning champion, placed fourth.
Preview
27. September
PDC World Grand Prix
By now the PDC published the schedule for the first round.
The tournament will be opened on 3. October with the match between Callan Rydz and Krzysztof Ratajski. The reigning champion Jonny Clayton will stand on stage as well during the first night against Dirk van Duijvenbode as one of four seeded players The last match of the first round will be played on 4. October - the match between Michael Smith and Nathan Aspinall.
Schedule
WDF Europe Cup
Tomorrow in Gandia, Spain, the WDF Europe Cup 2022 will begin.
Men's Teams from 41 countrys and women's teams from 35 countries take part in it. Eight teams each will be seeded in the Team events. Played as well will be single and pairs events.
There will be a Live Stream for the event: Europe Cup Stream
WDF Europe Cup
World Series of Darts 2023
The PDC already published the venues and the dates of the World Series of Darts 2023.
Again the World Series will consist of five international events and the final. But next year only two events in Down Under will be played - the New Zealand Darts Masters and the New South Wales Darts Masters which again will take place in August. And again the Nordic Darts Masters and the U.S.Darts Masters will be played next year though the Nordic Darts Masters will already take place in January. As well in January the new Bahrain Darts Masters will be played. The final will as this year take place in September in Amsterdam.
World Series of Darts
PDC Asian Championship
At the weekend the first PDC Asian Championship was played in Fukuoka in Japan. Winner was Christian Perez from the Philippines who defeated
in the final his fellow countryman Paolo Nebrida with 7:5. By this Perez qualified for both the PDC World Championship and
the Grand Slam of Darts.
Beside Perez runner-up Nebrida and the two semifinalist of the tournament Lourence Ilagan - as well from the Philippines - and Japanese Toro Suzuki qualified for the PDC World Championship too.
26. September
PDC World Grand Prix
After the Belgian Darts Open the field of participants is known PDC World Grand Prix. The tournament will beplayed from 3. - 9. Ovtober in Leicester.
Ross Smith secured himself the last qualifying spot by progessing into the second round of the Belgian Darts Open.
The draw already took place. Reigning champion Jonny Clayton will open his campaing against Dirk van Duijvenbode while the World Number 1 Gerwyn Price will begin against Martin Schindler and World Champion Peter Wright will play against Kim Huybrechts.
World Grand Prix, Participants, Draw First Round
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit and the European Tour Order of Merit were updated after the Belgian Darts Open in Wieze.PDC Rankings
European Tour
25. September
Chisnall wins Belgian Darts Open
With a 8:6 defeat of Andrew Gilding - the surprise player of the event - Dave Chisnall won the Belgian Darts Open. For Chisnall it was the first
title since three years. Before Chisnall won on finals day in the third round against Nathan Aspinall and a prevailed in an astonishing
one sided quarterfinal 6:2 over Jose des Sousa. In his outstanding semi-final against Danny Noppert Chisnall
threw in the first leg a nine-darter. Gilding, who entered the tournament as an unseeded player, defeated on finals day first
Niels Zonneveld, eliminated in the quarterfinals Martin Schindler and won a highclass semi-final against
Jonny Clayton.
Statistics
Report Finals Daynew
Belgian Darts Open - Day 3
Today the tournament will be played to the end. In the afternoon session the third round will take place, in
the evening session quarterfinals, semi-finals and final will be played.
Four of the seeded players were eliminated in the second round. Damon Heta lost a close match to Rusty-Jake Rodriguez, Dimitri van den Bergh was defeated 5:6 by Andrew Gilding. Peter Wright lost with the same result due to a comeback of his opponent Niels van Zonneveld. Michael van Gerwen was defeated 4:6 by Kim Huybrechts who ended the match with a sensational 134 finish (Triple 18, Double 20, Double 20)and punished the Dutchman for his many missed doubles. Huybrechts is the only Belgian player still in the tournament.
Schedule, Results
24. September
Belgian Darts Open - Day 2
On the second day of the tournament the seeded players join the tournament and play against the first round
winners. Again an afternoon - and an evening session will take place.
To the disappointment of the impressive Belgian crowd all five Host Nation Qualifiers were eliminated first round while the two Belgian Tour Card Qualifiers Mike de Decker and Kim Huybrechts progressed with wins over Remo Mandiau (one of the Host Nation qualifiers) and Steve West into the second round.
Schedule, Results
Statistics
23. September
Belgian Darts Open
Today in Wieze in Belgium the Belgian Darts Open - the penultimate European Tour Event of the year and the last
which still counts for World Grand Prix in October - will begin.
Luke Humphries, Gerwyn Price and Michael Smith withdrew before the draw. Martin Schindler, Gabriel Clemens and Adrian Lewis moved up as seeded players and by the Host Nation Qualifier five tournament places were on offer. Qualified have Andy Baetens, Wouter Vanrolleghem, Roberto Vandaele, Remo Mandiau and Francois Schweyen.
As always on the first day of the tournament today the first round will be played in an afternoon and an evening session. Only the qualifiers will stand at the oche.
Belgian Darts Open, Results
Statistics
21. September
PDC World Youth World Championship
This years World Youth Championship will take place after the last Development Tour weekend on 9. October in Wigan.
By now already the international qualifiers and the PDC Tour Card holders of eligible age are known.
The other tournament places will be secured over Development Order of Merit after the last
Development Tour event of the year.
You can find the already known participants here:
PDC Winmau World Youth Championship, Participants
19. September
PDC Challenge Tour
At the weekend in Leicester five Events of the PDC Challenge Tour took place. They had with
Robert Owen, Wesley Plaisier, Jurjen van der Velde, Christian Kist and Scott Williams five different winners.
For Williams it was already the fourth win on the Challenge Tour this year, for van der Velde the second.
Williams sits still far ahead on the first place of the Challenge Tour Ranking while Owen moved up to second place just
ahead of Danny van Trijp.
PDC Challenge Tour
18. September
Price wins World Series of Darts Final
In an extremly close final Gerwyn Price defeated Dirk van Duijvenbode with 11:10 and for the second time won the World Series title.
Van Duijvenbode had most of the times the lead but Price always managed to draw. In the deciding leg it was Price who reached with his higher scores
a finish first and with a two-dart 90 Checkout won the match.
Before Price defeated in the semi-finals James Wade with 11:9 while van Duijvenbode prevailed 11:8 over Jonny Clayton.
Statistics
Report Final
World Series of Darts Finale - Finals Day
On the last day the tournament it will be played to the end in an afternoon- and an evening session.
The quarterfinals in the afternoon session were a thrilling affair. First Gerwyn Price defeated Joe Cullen with 10:8 in a match in which the lead changed several times and in which Price despite his much higher average never seemed to get rid of Cullen. After that Dirk van Duijvenbode prevailed in a very close and even match with 10:9 over Ryan Joyce. The third quarterfinal was far less hard fought as Michael Smith just never was really in the game - he lost 5:10 to James Wade. In the last quarterfinal reigning champion Jonny Clayton met crowd favourite Michael van Gerwen. Clayton was soon 4:1 in front but van Gerwen settled and got the lead. But Clayton didn't give in, got stronger and stronger and battled back. Van Gerwen had no chance - he lost 7:10.
Tonight in the semi-finals first Gerwyn Price will play against James Wade before reigning champion Clayton will meet Dirk van Duijvenbode, the last Dutchman still in the event.
Schedule, Results
17. September
World Series of Darts Final
In the first round of the event we did see some not expected results. American Leonard Gates prevailed over
Devon Petersen and Canadian Matt Campbell won 6:3 against Vincent van der Voort. World Champion Peter Wright
had some problems against Fallon Sherrock especially as he had problems to hit his doubles while his opponent was absolutely
clinical but he won 6:4.
Wright will play tonight in round 2 against Michael Smith. Reigning champion Jonny Clayton will meet Danny Noppert and Michael van Gerwen will play against the last night convincing Damon Heta.
Schedule, Results
Statistics
16. September
World Series of Darts Final
Tonight in Amsterdam the final of this year's World Series of Darts will begin.
In the first round today sixteen players will stand at the oche who either were invited or qualified by the qualifier. Among them are beside World Champion Peter Wright - who couldnt take part in all World Series Events - players from the Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, North America and South Africa. Wright will play for a place in the second round against Fallon Sherrock.
Tomorrow the seeds will enter the tournament. One of them will reigning champion Jonny Clayton who will play against the winner of the first round match between Simon Whitlock and Danny Noppert.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Statisticsnew
Preview
14. September
PDC World Grand Prix
The PDC World Grand Prix is the next major PDC tournament. It will take place in October in Leicester. Only the Belgian Darts Open from 23. - 25. September in Wieze will still count for qualification.
How the field of participants looks before this event you can find here:
Participants World Grand Prix - on 14. September
WDF Rankings
The WDF Rankings were updated.WDF Rankings
13. September
CDC Premier Darts Circuit
At the weekend the last events of this year's CDC Premier Darts Circuit were played in Waterdown, Canada.
They were won by Danny Baggish, Jim Long and Jacob Taylor.
Danny Baggish is after the end of the season head of the table and by this qualified for the PDC World Championship. In second place sits Canadian David Cameron who as the best placed Canadian as well qualified for the PDC World Championship where he will give his debut.
CDC Circuit
12. September
Peter Wright wins in Jena
Peter Wright is the most consitent player of the tournament and wins the final against against
Dimitri van den Bergh - who was not in the best of his health on Finals Day - deservedly with 8:6.
For Wright it was the first title on the European Tour since 2017, for van den Bergh
his second final.
In the semi-finals stood Jose de Sousa and Joe Cullen. Martin Schindler was the only host nation player still in the tournament on Sunday. He lost in the third round to Gerwyn Price.
German Darts Open - Participants, Schedule, Results
Statistics
Report Finals Daynew
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit and the European Tour Order of Merit were updated after the German Darts Open in Jena.PDC Rankings
European Tour
9. September
German Darts Open
Tomorrow in Jena, Germany, the German Darts Open will begin. As always on the first day for the first round
only the qualifiers will stand at the oche. An afternoon and an evening session will take place.
Michael van Gerwen, Michael Smith, Adrian Lewis and Darren Webster withdrew from the tournament. As a result Dave Chisnall and Martin Schindler move up as seeded players while Ross Smith, Lewy Williams, Steve Beaton and Joe Murnan all get a bye in the first round.
German Darts Open - Participants, Schedule, Results
Statisticsnew
7. September
Darts Performance Centre
In all other sports coaches are the order of the day. Why not in the sport of darts even though the benefits
of coaches are a well-known truth? The Darts Performance Centre coaching clinic blog trys to figure it out.
On the trail of a Darts Coach! We look at why there is a lack of coaches in darts!
WDF News...
Raymond Smith and Beau Greaves were the winners of the Australian Darts Open. At the Pacific Masters Lisa Ashton and
WDF World Champion Neil Duff got the titles. The youth events were won by Mitchell Galby and Faith Kainuku.
Winners of the Australian Murray Bridge Classic were Brandon Weening and Melina van den Kieboom.
Winners of the Antwerp Open were Jamie Lewis and Aletta Wajer, the Belgium Open were won by Wesley Plaisier and Laura Turner. The youth events saw two players pick up title doubles - Enrico Frank and Jana Leys. The Swedish Open were won by Kai Fan Leung and Lorraine Winstanley, the Swedish Masters by Dennie Olde Kalter and Aileen de Graaf.
In New Zealand as well a ranking event took place. At the John Wilkie Memorial Jonathan Tata and Weny Harper got the titles while the youth event was won by Jack Sheppard.
5. September
PDC Rankings
The PDC Order of Merit, the Pro Tour Order of Merit and the European Tour Order of Merit were updated after the Hungarian Darts Trophy in Budapest.PDC Rankings
European Tour
4. September
Cullen wins Hungarian Darts Trophy
Joe Cullen defeated William O'Connor in the final of the Hungarian Darts Trophy with 8:2 and won the title.
So in the end one of the seeded players was the winner. Cullen showed his best performances in the semi-final and final.
With Nathan Aspinall another seed reached the semi-finals. The other semi-finalist was Dave Chisnall.
Hungarian Darts Trophy - Participants, Schedule, Results
Statistics
Report Finals Daynew
Hungarian Darts Trophy
Today in Budapest the Hungarian Darts Trophy will be played to the end.
In the afternoon-session the third round will take place, in the evening session quarterfinals, semi-finals and
the final will follow.
Ten from fifteen seeded players didn't survive the second round - among them Michael van Gerwen who once again was defeated by Simon Whitlock. Peter Wright as well was eliminated despite he played really well at his first appearance after his surgery by Jim Williams.
Hungarian Darts Trophy - Participants, Schedule, Results
3. September
Hungarian Darts Trophy
On the second day of the Hungarian Darts Trophy the seeded players play against the first round winners.
Again an afternoon and an evening session will take place.
All Hungarian qualifiers were eliminated first round. The best performances in the first round showed Daryl Gurney and Stephen Bunting who both averaged over 100.
Hungarian Darts Trophy - Participants, Schedule, Results
2. September
Hungarian Darts Trophy
Today in Budapest the Hungarian Darts Trophy will begin. As always on the first day for the first round
only the qualifiers will stand at the oche. An afternoon and an evening session will take place.
The tournament will be opened by the match between German Frank Roetzsch and Latvian Madars Razma. With Andras Borbely, Levente Sarai, Pal Szekely and Janos Vegsö four Hungarian qualifiers will stand on stage today. One of the highlights probably will be the match between Raymond van Barneveld and Rowby-John Rodriguez in the evening session.
Gerwyn Price and Rowby-John Rodriguez withdrew on short notice.
Hungarian Darts Trophy - Participants, Schedule, Results
1. September
Winner of the German Masters - which took place for the first time since 2019 - were Stefanie Lück and
Ole Holtkamp. The youth events won Wibke Riemann and Liam Maendl-Lawrance. Winner of the team competition was
Team 1 of the HDV.
The American Championship Darts Circuit by now started into the new season. At the weekend
the first three events took place in Brownburg, Indiana.
